Raymond didn't answer the question; He answered a different question. The question actually asked was about why---almost 20 years later---Microsoft continues t

Raymond didn't answer the question; He answered a different question. The question actually asked was about why---almost 20 years later---Microsoft continues to ship new versions of Office with this inconsistency. It's like if you discovered that your newly-built SF apartment building wasn't earthquake-resistant, and you asked an engineer from the construction company, "Why are you building new apartment buildings in San Francisco that aren't resistant to earthquakes?", and the engineer answered, "Well, we designed our first apartments 150 years ago when people didn't know very much about earthquakes." The answer is a non-answer, and the practice itself is unsustainable.