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RIMRyesterday at 6:58 PM1 replyview on HN

There's a world of difference between software dependencies going out of date between many releases and a company deliberately disabling older devices from downloading static ebook files instead of maintaining some sort of basic backward compatibility.


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fg137yesterday at 9:07 PM

> maintaining some sort of basic backward compatibility

Sounds easy for you to type that out on a forum without having to maintain a two decade old stack, which probably has tons of "software dependencies going out of date"

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