Editing Jamie Zawinski (section)

==Zawinski's Law==
{{Anchor|Zawinski's Law}}
''Zawinski's Law of Software Envelopment'', also known as ''Zawinski's Law'', states:
{{blockquote | Every program attempts to expand until it can read [[E-mail|mail]]. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.}}
Some have interpreted this as commenting on the phenomenon of [[software bloat]]ing with popular features.<ref name="aoup">
Eric S. Raymond ''The Art of UNIX Programming'', [https://books.google.com/books?id=H4q1t-jAcBIC&pg=PA313 p.313]
</ref><ref name="Jargon File">
{{Cite web
 | url = https://jargon-file.org/archive/jargon-4.4.7.dos.txt
 | title = The Jargon File
 | last = Raymond
 | first = Eric S.
 | date = 2003-12-29
 | website = Jargon File Text Archive
 | access-date = 2023-05-01
}}
</ref>
Zawinski stated, in 2020:<ref>
{{cite tweet
 | first = Jamie
 | last = Zawinski
 | user = jwz
 | date = 2020-11-24
 | title = My point was not about copycats, it was about platformization.
 | number = 1331287160738070528
 | access-date = 2021-02-13
}}
</ref> {{blockquote | My point was not about copycats, it was about platformization. Apps that you "live in" all day have pressure to become everything and do everything. An app for editing text becomes an IDE, then an OS. An app for displaying hypertext documents becomes a mail reader, then an OS.}}