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From: Jonas de Buhr <jonas.de.buhr@×××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Slightly OT but interesting nonetheless...
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 21:08:32
Message-Id: 20110926230636.10abf0a6@toxic.dbnet
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Slightly OT but interesting nonetheless... by James Broadhead
1 >The only problem with that attitude is that it eventually leads you to
2 >the same position that Microsoft is in with Windows -- where too many
3 >years of refusing to drop backwards compatibility were completely
4 >holding them back.
5
6 i thought of that too. as with many other things, the trick is to find
7 the right balance. important code changes/cleanups sometimes have to be
8 made, even if they break things. if that happens too often its going to
9 annoy the users.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Slightly OT but interesting nonetheless... Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>