Deleting parameters.

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

On Sun, 11 Nov 2001, Vance Lankhaar wrote:

> Correct me if I'm wrong, but backward compatibility gave us the
> monster known as Windows 95. Sure, it was compatible with loads of old
> stuff, but was it stable?

Bad argument.  Sorry.  Start changing parameters all the time
and you will see Samba adoption slow to a crawl (or see people
refuse to upgrade even in the case of a security hole).

I'm not fan of Windows 9x, but the same argument does
really apply in the case.


more thoughts later tonight :-)




cheers, jerry
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