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Re:Lessons Learned from Software Rewrites by di4na on Monday September 05, 2016 @09:24AM (#12430118)
From my PoV : Pull the plug and wait to see if someone yell. If noone yell... then noone need to know.

If someone yell, be sure to put your own contact proeminently everywhere. So that your management do not know. And just roll it back

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Re:Lessons Learned from Software Rewrites by OpenDrapery on Tuesday September 06, 2016 @09:41AM (#12435913)
Problem with this is the feature that is used by some external actor once every 18 months. You'll pull the plug, and when 6 months go by, you'll think you're safe. Then when shit blows up, you'll have no context and spend 3 days tracking it back to the "pulled plug"
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