On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 09:56:06PM -0800, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > On Wed, 25 Nov 2020 22:30:02 +0100 Joe <joe@jretrading.com> wrote: [...] > >> This is a pattern which I like to call "emergent evil". Most likely > >> nobody does it on purpose, yet it happens often enough to annoy > >> competing ecosystems. Magic! > > > > NTFS has been NTFS since the 90s, while Linux has had ext2, ext3, > > ext4, Reiser among other filesystems. Is it not likely that 'NTFS' > > has really been a similar parade of different filesystems with each > > version of Windows retaining the code to read previous versions? > > Occam's Razor? > > In situations like this, I think not of Occam's, but of Hanlon's Razor: It is likely that the OP was really thinking Occam's razor, not Hanlon's. > Never attribute to malice that which can > be adequately explained by stupidity. > > At this point, though, a little voice in the back of my mind says, > "But Microsoft isn't stupid!" For those cases I have "Bertie's Bastard", which is a cross-over of Hanlon's Razor and Clarke's Third Law: "Any sufficiently advanced malice is indistiguishable from stupidity" Profuse apologies to Robert J. Hanlon and sublime Arthur C. Clarke. Cheers - t
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