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by sruffell 5612 days ago
Also increasing the cost of any ongoing maintenance and support (and the need to charge for that support and maintenance) are the "unhedged option calls" [1] made when the idea was first expressed in code.

[1] http://www.m3p.co.uk/blog/2010/07/23/bad-code-isnt-technical...

I'm also reminded of the joke: "How did God manage to create the world in only six days? He didn't have any installed base he had to worry about backwards compatibility with."