At first when I saw the subject of this node I had an entirely different idea about what it was about before I read it. When I hear the phrase "if it ain't broke don't fix it" in my profession I get my dander up just a tad. Why?

First off lots of folks live with broken "things" such as slow computers, applications that crash all the time etc. and don't even realize that it's broke. They just just accept the status quo and reload the application or put up with delays etc.

I am a Unix Engineer by title and my job is to point out to such folks that it's broke and how to fix it. That's what I get the medium sized bucks for and when we as engineers figure out how to fix it and life gets better for the end user they are happy and I go on to the next thing that might be broke and on it goes.

Is the XP system broke? Dunno. ysth makes the statement that

Probably right, but how can I say? What yardstick do I have to measure "right" with in this case? What right do I have to measure it? I'm not one of the gods anyway!

Part of why I hesitate one way or another to say if the XP system is broke or not is the simple fact that I don't know what our founders had in mind and in my not-so-humble opinion they are the only ones who can say definitively if it's broke or not.

Closing thought: XP is probably the least important facet of PM to me anyway. This could be one reason I don't see the system as being broke.

Peter L. Berghold -- Unix Professional
Peter at Berghold dot Net
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In reply to Re: If (the PM XP system) ain't broke, don't fix it by blue_cowdawg
in thread If (the PM XP system) ain't broke, don't fix it by ysth

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