[to3m]

Newer things only break in strange ways because they're broken. So rather than break the old stuff, why not fix the new stuff?? - because after all, approximately the only criticism you can't level at the Windows NUL/PRN/COMx/etc. special names is that they're some kind of surprise that appeared suddenly out of nowhere! It's been this way for a very long time.

(I wonder if part of this is the rage of Unix fans discovering that portable means actually, you know, making an effort... and that there's more too it than just checking it builds on x86 Debian as well as x64 Ubuntu...)

[loa_in_]

You can't just say it's been that way for a long time so it's acceptable, because the industry (and for that matter the Internet) is getting fresh new people every day. You can't expect them not to be surprised, and you can't just arbitrarily require them to know something they haven't stumbled upon until after it caused problems.

[paulddraper]

"portable means actually, you know, making an effort"

When I hear portable, I immediately think of the Portable Operating System Interface.