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

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2020-12-01 18:22:23 +0000, David Jones said:

> 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.

Ayup. And should your market stagnate, you'd better be very well 
positioned or it'll get ugly.


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