[Info-vax] Greg Kroah-Hartman on backwards compatibility

[David Jones]

On Monday, November 30, 2020 at 10:24:23 AM UTC-5, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> https://thenewstack.io/greg-kroah-hartman-lessons-for-developers-from-20-years-of-linux-kernel-work 
> 
> He talks about Linux, but I think we could do s/Linux/VMS/w 
> without anyone noticing. 
> 

 "Don't make you users mad."

My observation has been that if your market is quickly growing, you don't care if you
make your old users mad because you have 3 or 4 times as many new users that are
very happy with the cool new stuff.