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Show All  Recent Posts   Life Support   Seems that the theme of
the week is dropping support for "minority" software that is
still widely used.  First Microsoft announces the end of
mainstream support for VB6, then Mozilla announces that it will
drop support for the venerable "Seamonkey" suite, then Debian
drops support for a bunch of uncommon processor architectures.
Each of these, predictably, has led to flamewars and lots of
noise.  I'm not negatively affected by any of these decisions: I
saw the writing on the wall for Seamonkey more than a year ago
and switched to Firefox; all my boxes are x86 (and most of them,
sadly, are Windows for work reasons); and I wouldn't be caught
dead programming in any variation of Visual Basic (with the
exception that VBScript is still inexplicably the best-supported
scripting language for Windows and so sometimes there's no
choice).  It's interesting to compare and contrast the
situations, though.  In the c