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Pournelle's take on part of it seems pertinent to me: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Pournelle#Pournelle's_ir...

John Ousterhout explained "it's easier to create a new organism than to change an existing one...": https://web.stanford.edu/~ouster/cgi-bin/sayings.php :



I'd forgotten the name of this Law for a long time - it's excellent.




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