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Originally Posted by fjtorres
As the Linux crowd would say: OS bloat is not a law of nature.  |
Because Linux isn't an OS
But really, in a commercial environment with large(r) teams - bloat happens. Features add and change, content is stored in friendlier formats, static is replaced with dynamic, scripting replaces compiled; and both bit rot and code entropy team up with the god-developer leaving a project. Ease of development outweighs caring about hardware, it also drives sales and keeps prices down.
While it's never nice to see things devolve into bloated corpses, it's life - complain to the people with the money, help the guys who do it out of their own time.