[c-nsp] TIL: Maintenance Operations Protocol (MOP)

[Lukas Tribus]

On Thu, 5 Aug 2021 at 21:49, Nick Hilliard <nick at foobar.org> wrote:
> It has the appearance of a feature which is kept alive because some
> customer with a huge spend demands it in general-deployment release
> trains (this is idle speculation and may be completely wrong btw).

More precisely, who (which employee) should be doing this, there is no
ROI for pushing such a change, but there is a (tiny) possibility of
blowback, in a company that is not exactly a stranger to layoffs.

I don't think there are a lot of rewards for employees for fixing old
lingering software problems, if any, *especially* in IOS. It's
different if a specific BU is responsible for the code, but generic
code from decades ago, the BU responsible for the code path today
probably handles a million other things, some of them presumably do
actually make money.


What is right or technically correct is not always the priority.


lukas