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In message <CF439450-14F1-4628-A012-CF6DD2A50670@rabson.org>, Doug Rabson write
s:

>Normal business practice doesn't include
>intentionally making your customers' lives difficult - if you make a
>habit of it they tend to go elsewhere.

Right, but as Sun has so definitively shown, you don't do your
customers any service either, by being mortally afraid of breaking
backwards compatibility.

It's a balance to be struck, and it was certainly a mistake that
we didn't deal with it when the alpha arrived.  Or PC98.  Or spar64.
Or ...

Poul-Henning

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