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Then it seems like you're not really rewriting as Joel defines it, you're launching a new product (it does new things, and it doesn't replace the old one). I guess it then becomes a question of effort spent in cannibalizing your own product vs. the income the new version brings, which is a very different equation for Basecamp and the products Joel talks about.


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