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Since I managed to run GNU/Linux properly, I thought that software can also be good. Grewing I started to put my hands in software development, and now I'm aware that everything sucks. I realized this by myself, than I read this article and ...well, I totally agree.

There's no good software out there. There's just software that sucks less.

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That's a little strong. Of course there is good software out there. There's even great software out there, just not much.

In a field where the barrier to entry is so low it is natural that the average quality will be lower. Compare this to say, aircraft design, where the bar to entry is skyhigh (pun intended) and as such average quality is higher.

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