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From: dlw@odi.com (Dan Weinreb)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.unix.internals,comp.misc
Subject: Re: Software Obesity (was Re: Jargon file v2.1.5)
Message-ID: <1990Dec3.212858.15564@odi.com>
Date: 3 Dec 90 21:28:58 GMT
References: <1990Nov30.172512.5282@sctc.com> <O7Y77DB@xds13.ferranti.com> <PST.90Dec1131440@ack.Stanford.EDU> <1990Dec2.202402.21977@decuac.dec.com>
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Organization: Object Design, Inc.
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In-Reply-To: mjr@hussar.dco.dec.com's message of 2 Dec 90 20:24:02 GMT

In article <1990Dec2.202402.21977@decuac.dec.com> mjr@hussar.dco.dec.com (Marcus J. Ranum) writes:

	   Because the idea of eliminating old "features" has never been
   considered.

If you had customers with working programs depending on old features,
you wouldn't consider it either.