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What kind of breaking change would take longer than 2 years to deal with? The reality is that people wait out the entire 6 year period and then do the required months work at the end. If you make the support period 2 years they will just start working on it sooner.


Many perhaps most projects don’t last 6 years, thus punting can save people a great deal of time.




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