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

[David Froble]

lawrencedo99 at gmail.com wrote:
> On Sunday, June 19, 2016 at 2:48:34 PM UTC+12, David Froble wrote:
>> Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
>> 
>>> Hands up all those who think RMS should die already...
>> 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.

Only if there are problems.  No blood, no foul, right?

>> 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.

That assumes the old has any need to adapt to the new.