Comment Yeah Right (Score 1) 380
Backwards compatibility has enormous hidden costs. Reminds me of the startup I worked for. We used the latest high tech development tools that allowed us to run circles around the big, old, slow competitors. Eventually, one of them was forced to buy us out to prevent them from eating their lunch.
So what do they do then? They start forcing us to use their ancient, out-of-date development tools and processes. They never moved on to newer and beter things, because their vendors gave them backwards compatibility. Saved them lots of money by not having to upgrade!
Pretty soon, my group's productivity is back down to the same level as the rest of big-old-slow corp. With no reason to keep us around, they close my group down. Woohoo backwards compatibility saves they day!
So what do they do then? They start forcing us to use their ancient, out-of-date development tools and processes. They never moved on to newer and beter things, because their vendors gave them backwards compatibility. Saved them lots of money by not having to upgrade!
Pretty soon, my group's productivity is back down to the same level as the rest of big-old-slow corp. With no reason to keep us around, they close my group down. Woohoo backwards compatibility saves they day!
