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Re: Why MSIE sucks for the HTML writer
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Sun, 19 Mar 2000 22:37:50 GMT
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Larry Pieniazek wrote in message <38D4D6F1.75A47A1D@novera.com>...


Todd Lehman wrote:

Is Netscape still fixing bugs that appeared in NN3.x, or more
appropriately, I guess, in NN2.x?

If there are any left, I'd hope so!

And I would hope NOT. NS has better things to do with their time than
fix 3 year old software. Standard policy in software is to drop support
for stuff more than 18 months old. And that's a GOOD think IMHO.


Of course in the router code I work on at IBM, we currently support 4
versions of the code, which amounts to like 3 years worth of versions or so.
Of course there is a lot more reason not to upgrade infrastructure code than
to not upgrade end user code.

Frank



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(...) And I would hope NOT. NS has better things to do with their time than fix 3 year old software. Standard policy in software is to drop support for stuff more than 18 months old. And that's a GOOD think IMHO. By your own admission (the stats (...) (25 years ago, 19-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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