I look at it this way, too. The brutal approach has been chosen, we can argue about it's effectiveness or individual choices, but the only way we could make it worse would be to start all over again, this long in the game.
There is nothing special about legacy software not functional under the most recent version. Ask the java folks in big enterprises. I highly prefer this approach with a strong focus on a clean API than the other way around.
We should stop arguing about wrong choices and start start losing graciously [0] and fix the missing pieces.
There is nothing special about legacy software not functional under the most recent version. Ask the java folks in big enterprises. I highly prefer this approach with a strong focus on a clean API than the other way around.
We should stop arguing about wrong choices and start start losing graciously [0] and fix the missing pieces.
[0] http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/1316