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I know, but not all software is written and maintained such that this is enough to adapt. Whether that's good or bad is a different question.

• lallysingh 10y ago
  Four years? Any software that assumes that a networked third party service will be up (any unchanged) for years later is ridiculous, and it's development is bad.
  • cm3 10y ago
    Is it bad? Yes. Does this happen? Also yes. Maybe you're assuming that there isn't software which gets written and installed but only touched sporadically. Web services will be integrated in some web site and forgotten about. Sometime after the service is shut down some user of the site might notice. It's not the case that all users of a web API are developers like the HN crowd and in the loop of things. To be clear, I'm not saying people should expect different support times, just that one shouldn't rely on a third party when it's all over the network and you have no local copy of the code to potentially operate for longer than officially supported.
    • lallysingh 10y ago
      > one shouldn't rely on a third party when it's all over the network and you have no local copy of the code to potentially operate for longer than officially supported Agreed.