David Pollak on Nostr: Ah... one of my favorite software ads of all time... dBase II vs. the bilge pumps "We ...
Ah... one of my favorite software ads of all time... dBase II vs. the bilge pumps
"We all know that bilge pumps suck.
And by now, we've found out -- the hard way -- that a lot of software seems to work the same way."
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