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Subject: Re: Remove obsolete Solaris 8 support
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On Mar 12, 2012, at 11:48 AM, Rainer Orth wrote:
> But both for those and Solaris 8, the time has come where maintaining the=
m is more
> trouble than it's worth,

The nice thing is, anyone that disagrees with you, will step forward.  :-) =
 Notice, I didn't disagree with you...  I was only railing against the idea=
 that we remove support, simply because a vendor did.  In this case, we're =
removing support, because it is more trouble than it is worth, which makes =
for a fine reason to remove support.