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Originally Posted by rantanplan
Not true, you have to maintain old code or refactor it to have it still working. This kind of technical dept can be quite expensive, especially if only a handful of people actually use it..
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Nonsense. What you are claiming only applies to old code on new platforms, like making Windows NT Notepad work on Windows 11 (Win9x Notepad was different code and max 64K files!). It doesn't apply to file conversions for HW & SW that hasn't changed in years. FW version 2.5.8 is the newest for any Kindles that don't do KF8, i.e. PDF or old mobi KF7 only (oldest is 3.4.3 for KF8 support).
I've 40 year old software that still does what it did then, now runs in DOSBOX.
Also Mobi hasn't changed at least since 2016, probably much earlier. It costs Amazon nearly nothing extra (if anything extra) to supply people than can only read mobi.
It's certainly more than a handful of people.
Many programs still support MS RTF, developed from 1987 until 2008, so MUCH older than mobi KF7 (2007 to 2016 approx on Kindle, maybe changes ceased earlier. The mobi format predates Kindle, but obviously only Kindle officially supports Amazon DRM version, azw not azw3).