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Re:Lessons Learned from Software Rewrites by tonyedgecombe on Monday September 05, 2016 @06:28AM (#12429304)
If no one was using them why do you need to convince management?
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Re:Lessons Learned from Software Rewrites by emdeha on Tuesday September 06, 2016 @04:19AM (#12434378)
Because management decisions ain't always driven by logic.

The simplest reason may be attachment to the feature--the feature is of no use but the person who's invented it is scared by the possibility of removing it.

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Re:Lessons Learned from Software Rewrites by akerro on Monday September 05, 2016 @08:47AM (#12429888)
Because when trying to sell the application list of features is longer, which means we know what we're doing and are able to maintain it.
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