Who in their right mind would integrate something into their business that had to constantly be replaced or was constantly having it's look, feel & function changed by some arbitrary developer decision?

Quickbooks & Outlook clones would be useless if they constantly changed or were dropped by a distro because somebody determined that they weren't being maintained or developed on (read: constantly changed) anymore.

I've said it a thousand times and it's still true, even if the Linux community doesn't like it. They have to stop screwing around with the desktops and the applications all the time. Since most distros cannot be upgraded without hosing the whole thing, they need to learn some discipline in bug-fixing and additions and stop obsoleting things people use, just because they, the developers, are not aware of everything people are using.

The problem with the Mongolian-horde concept of system development is an absence of self-discipline and the Not Invented Here Syndrome (pride).