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[Richard Gaskin]

andu wrote:

> Richard Gaskin wrote:
> 
>> Sometimes.  There's always a question of return on investment with such
>> things. 
> 
> Being a long time Linux user I must contradict the assumption that
> "There's *always* a question of return on investment" as you mean it.
> Many good things were killed in the name of this return on investment...

At the risk of sounding the curmudgeon, if a tool appears killed before it's
time it's just a calculation error, either in the ROI measurements or those
related to the value of the tool.

As a principle, measuring for ROI is critical -- who wants to invest $1000
to make $100 back? 

But of course, the efficacy of ROI measurements is a function of the
earnestness put into deriving them. :)

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