There doesn't seem to be many people around these days who think like John Murga.

During the 1970s, I worked on an application that was revolutionary for the time and saved a lot of disk space and other resources. The idea made a lot of money (for other people, not me). It was a fun product to work on and made life better for people working in the computer industry.

More recently, I worked for a company that would tell people to buy a new computer if they had performance or disk space problems. That solution has gotten more plausible as hardware has improved and gotten less expensive. Still, it's sad that this has become the mindset for many software developers.