In the full interview, Joel addresses the concern over “bloatware”, where software takes up progressively more disk and/or memory space. Among programmers, “bloatware” is a derogatory term.
Moore’s law makes much of the whining about bloatware ridiculous. In 1993, Microsoft Excel 5.0 took up about $36 worth of hard drive space. In 2000, Microsoft Excel 2000 takes up about $1.03 in hard drive space. All adjusted for inflation. So stop whining about how bloated it is.
Actually, the whole article is pretty interesting. I’m putting a copy here for when the link goes bad. Read on…