Karl wrote:

Kostas, in the past, you've made emotional arguments, but with facts. This time, it is all emotion and no sense of reality.

Karl - stop making sense! It's getting in the way of my rage!

If only programming and code was like Grandma's apple pie. She had a good recipe and it tasted very very good (Apple Pie 1.0). Then her sister borrowed that recipe and added something to make it even better! (Apple Pie 2.0) One day her oldest daughter suggested making a design in the top pastry (Apple Pie 2.1). Then one day the ill-tempered uncle interrupted the baking with a tirade about how upsetting it was that the newer pies didn't taste like Grandma's original pies; even though everyone agreed (including the uncle) that the newer pies tasted the best! So he downloaded an illegal copy of the newest recipe and left.

When he came back, he brought his sister-in-law along. She was going to make just the pie crust. Everyone agreed that would be good, because then everyone could spend more time making their part of the pie better. This worked very well.

A few days went by, and it came to light that some people not far away were still enjoying Grandma's original pie recipe. So everyone in the kitchen decided to make some old-fashioned pies for those people, because they were nice and liked to help others. As it turns out, however, the sister-in-laws crust did not taste very good with the old-fashioned recipe. Everyone complained. So it was decided that those who wanted to enjoy Grandma's original pie could have their own copy of the recipe to make for themselves.

Soon there was a party to celebrate everyone's pie-making successes. Everyone ate lots of apple pie. Some old-fashioned pie lovers even tried the newer recipes - and they liked them! In fact, by the end of the party, everyone was so drunk on pie and ice cream, that ALL the pies were being eaten and no one complained. Because they were drunk. On pie and ice cream.

For a time after the party, everyone got along very very well. The new-pie people went on to win awards and accolades for their innovative pie recipes. Parades, and notoriety soon followed. At first the old-fashioned pie people were happy for them, and proud that they shared in the original heady days of Pie-Utopia.

In the end though, the old-fashioned pie-eaters stayed with the old-fashioned recipe. They eventually became outmoded, cynical people who were too inflexible to enjoy the virtues of anything new, let alone really good pie. In time they realized their folly but it was too late. They all died a horrible miserable death.