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We are not alone

JacquesC 2376
October 09 2007
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There has been quite a number of complaints about new version of Maple being somehow inferior to previous versions in various ways. Lest people think that this is special to Maplesoft, PC World is running a story titled Before they Spoiled the Software, on various multimedia software that used to be better before it got seriously bloated. They also draw the reader's attention to sites like oldversion.com which specialize in archiving older versions of ``free'' software. Of course, in the case of Maple and also many of the software listed, there have also been genuine improvements. But these improvements can sometimes be heavily overshadowed by new ``features'' which are not in fact considered to be improvements by expert users of the software. See the story for details of what other developers have gotten wrong when trying to ``improve'' their software.

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