[Info-vax] RMS record metadata, was: Re: Re; Spiralog, RMS Journaling (was Re: FREESPADRIFT)

[lawrencedo99 at gmail.com]

On Sunday, June 19, 2016 at 2:48:34 PM UTC+12, David Froble wrote:
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> Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
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>> Hands up all those who think RMS should die already...
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> Perhaps you are ready to re-write billions of dollars of existing software?

This is the point I brought up before, about discounted cost versus total cost. As every new headache with the legacy technology appears, it is cheaper to spend that small fortune on patching it up, rather than a large fortune on getting rid of it. After a while, all those small fortunes add up to much more than the large fortune. And you are still stuck with the legacy technology.

> Why cannot the old and new co-exist?

The new technology does not have the problem adapting to the old, it is the old technology that has trouble adapting to the new.