Just got a press release email from www.design-reuse.com. They're appearing at DAC with "a major release of [their] IP Reuse Enterprise Platform". I wish them well; I really do. But I couldn't help recall a story by Jamie Zawinski in which he infamously (or maybe just famously) said, of Groupware:
"Jesus Mother of Fuck, what are you thinking! Do not strap the 'Groupware' albatross around your neck! That's what killed Netscape, are you insane?"
Well, for "Groupware" read "IP Reuse Platforms".
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