[csw-users] Why support Solaris 8 onwards?

[Donal McMullan]

I think it was Joel Spolsky who pointed out that code as it gets old,
doesn't rust. In fact, the longer it runs without incident, the more
trusted and valued it becomes.

If you want to spend your time replacing battle hardened, proven
solutions with the shiniest new thing (in other words, fixing things
that aren't broken) it's probably because you're too young to
appreciate how precious a commodity time is.

And I find that charming.

Donal


On 20 Sep 2007, at 03:21, Stefan Teleman wrote:

> On Wednesday 19 September 2007 11:32, James Lee wrote:
>
>> I trust they would not be so insulting.
>
> You should not feel insulted just because someone calls you on your
> apparent unwillingness to learn something new. This might happen to
> you in a job interview. It probably will.
>
>> I'm not.
>
> Nope, you're not. You're developing on a 7 years old version of
> Solaris which is EOF'ed, obsolete and of no interest to anyone except
> those who are unwilling to learn something new.
>
> Blastwave's reliance on an obsolete operating system is Blastwave's
> guaranteed obsolescence. Make sure it doesn't become yours as well.
>
> --Stefan
>
> -- 
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> KDE e.V.						-Monty Python
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