On Monday 21 February 2005 06:00 pm, Manuel McLure <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Manuel McLure wrote: > >>It's called "not changing things that people depend on", AKA > >> "backwards compatibility." > > Nick Rout wrote: > > How about treating it as a lesson in "not depending on things that > > might change" and/or "R'ing TFM" > > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > If you want to depend upon undocumented coincidences, that's entirely > > your affair. Don't complain when things break, however. > > It's becoming pretty obvious that although you are very smart people, > you wouldn't last a day in a customer support environment. If I gave > that answer to my customers, I'd be fired before the day was over. > Sometimes the fact that you're technically right is not enough.
That's absolute BS. It's is perfectly acceptable for my video card manufacturer to say "We don't support linux; use a supported OS" when I call to ask for linux drivers--even if it was working before. It's also perfectly acceptable for mailing-list administrators to say "We don't support filtering on To/CC; use a supported header for filtering" when you try to filter on the wrong header--even if it was working before. If a provider for any service specifies some interface and you use an unsupported one that just happens to work, you don't have a right to gripe when it finally breaks. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy -- [email protected] mailing list
