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Re:How to Improve a Legacy Codebase by jacquesm on Tuesday May 30, 2017 @10:32AM (#14445629)
> This type of situation is usually a red flag that the company's management doesn't understand the value of maintaining software until the absolutely have to.

Recent conversation with the manager of a company: "I've yet to see anybody give me a good reason why we need to maintain the software we already built if it work."

No kidding.

Re:How to Improve a Legacy Codebase by deedubaya on Tuesday May 30, 2017 @12:18PM (#14446359)
That's just a poor job of surfacing the consequences of not maintaining software by whoever built it.... unless their software is bug free... and we all know there is so much bug free software out there.
Re:How to Improve a Legacy Codebase by trnmura on Tuesday May 30, 2017 @11:07AM (#14445869)
Sadly, I think this is more of a rule than an exception...