[Elucalidavah]

> sit around and do nothing but pore over code and constantly rewrite code for old hardware

In case of refactoring / restructuring, that's exactly so.

But "drop support for this old hardware" is meant to be an intended decision with a clear deprecation warning, not accidentally.

[atemerev]

The bazaar doesn’t work like this. There are no incentives to support old hardware. If there are enough people with old hardware, their activity might be enough to do something. Otherwise — puff, gone.

Open source is already a miracle. The fact that something works somewhere is a miracle. I don’t tempt the powers and I don’t demand even more miracles to satisfy some perfectionist urges.