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CD or CDs

This week, I re-watched Revolution OS - a 2001 documentary about the history of Linux, open source and the free software movement.

I was also explaining to my son about how software used to be distributed on CD-ROMs.

This got me thinking.

What if we still primarily distributed software on physical media like CD-ROMs?

What if every release to your software project had to be burned to a disc, transported and inserted into a server to be installed.

This may take days or weeks instead of seconds or minutes.

Once a version is distributed, it isn't quick or easy to fix a bug or release a feature.

You can't simply update the version on every CD that was distributed with some hardware or attached to a computing magazine.

How would you change writing software if you worked this way?

- Oliver

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I'm an certified Drupal Triple Expert with 18 years of experience, a Drupal core contributor, public speaker, live streamer, and host of the Beyond Blocks podcast.