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====== Zawinski's Law ======

===== Variants and Alternative Names =====

===== Rule =====

> Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.

===== Description =====

  * Zawinski's Law is about [[anti-patterns:software bloat]]. Software tends to evolve in a way that continuously more and more features are added.
  * There are nevertheless plenty of programs which cannot read mail and never will. So the law is an exaggerated tendency.

===== Rationale =====

===== Why Not a Principle? =====
Zawinski's Law is rather the description of an effect than an engineering advice. It does not tell which solutions are good and which are bad.

===== Origin =====

===== See Also =====


===== Examples =====

Emacs, Mozilla, Opera, ...

===== Description Status =====
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===== Further Reading =====

  * [[wp>Zawinski's Law]]

===== Discussion =====

Discuss this wiki article and the non-principle on the corresponding [[talk:non-principles:Zawinski's Law|talk page]].