From: Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz (Shmuel+gen@patriot.net)
Date: Wed Mar 05 2003 - 23:25:59 CST
In <3E666288.2F129F80@oceana.com>, on 03/05/2003
at 03:48 PM, Ken Murchison <ken@oceana.com> said:
>My main point is that we should make every effort to be compatible
>with everybody, but backwards compatibility with existing standards
>should take precedence over making sure we don't break a small
>minority that willingly strayed from the beaten path.
The concern isn't breaking a small minority. The concern is that small
minority becoming a majority. If there were some way to make raw 8-bit
physically impossible for a transition period, there would probably be
a lot of support for it. There is no such way. We can be King Canute,
or we can try to do some social engineering.
"The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to
vote."
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