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US govt pleads: What's it gonna take to get you people using IPv6?

Adrian 4

'the Internet Engineering Task Force decided not to make it backwards-compatible, which has somewhat hampered its adoption.'

Because backwards compatibility is such a success.

Windows - Microsoft has been trying desperately to lose backwards compatibility because it makes a dog's breakfast of their operating system. But it's also the only reason anyone buys it.

USB - Gone from a standard, to two standards on one set of wires, to two sets of wires in one cable and a ludicrous two-tier plug that's nearly got enough pins to be a parallel port.

PC - A crazy stilted architecture still carrying the baggage of a 35-year-old processor.

Sometimes you just need to do it again and ditch what went before. You can't just keep adding layers.

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