Timeline for Unsupported setup, is it a valid question?
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| Nov 20, 2015 at 0:20 | comment | added | Jim B | Actually I'd argue legacy is mostly not OK, with a few exceptions, as most of the time you'll end up breaking something and not even Norton can save you. | |
| Nov 18, 2015 at 15:37 | comment | added | Jenny D | @sivann Let me put it like this: Legacy is (mostly) OK, even if support is no longer available from the vendor. Putting stuff together in a way that breaks the ability to support it, is (mostly) not. | |
| Nov 18, 2015 at 11:25 | comment | added | sivann | @JennyD (I meant it would be diffucult, not prohibited, I'm not a native speaker sorry for being vague). Okay, so let's sum up, questions for legacy or unsupported software seems legit while for hardware probably not. Do you agree? I have to point out that one of the main revenues of my company comes from supporting legacy hardware setups for various customers, like 1000+ VPNs built on EOL modems :-) | |
| Nov 18, 2015 at 10:44 | comment | added | Jenny D | @sivann Sure we can discriminate. This site runs on volunteers. If the volunteers agree that legacy software is on-topic, but messing up hardware by introducing stuff known to cause problems isn't, then the community has that right. | |
| Nov 18, 2015 at 9:01 | comment | added | sivann | Moreover all legacy is unsupported by definition. So you can't really discriminate. | |
| Nov 18, 2015 at 8:09 | comment | added | sivann | What people do you mean? The SF community? If you're talking about my buisiness I already explained about this being a business decision so this is a calculated risk. Or do you consider that we should never take calculated risks? In any case please try to think in general, not about the specific case.which could be indeed a bad decision. | |
| Nov 17, 2015 at 14:56 | comment | added | user9517 | If you know you're on your own, why are you inflicting your unsupported environment on other people ? Why would professionals risk their business on an unsupported environment? regarding legacy meta.serverfault.com/questions/8410/… | |
| Nov 17, 2015 at 14:22 | comment | added | sivann | But Iain, I know I'm on my own regarding support if it is unsupported, that is stated beforehand! But this is a tech forum, not an official support channel. Noone is expecting support from SF. Why can't professionals be interested in an unofficial hardware configuration? What about unsupported software then? Would you consider as valid a question about legacy software that needs to integrate with a newer one? It's also unsupported. | |
| Nov 17, 2015 at 12:02 | history | edited | user9517 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 17, 2015 at 11:08 | history | answered | user9517 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |