Re: [WAY WAY WAY OFFTOPIC]: MS Porting Office to Linux?
david parsons (o.r.c@p.e.l.l.p.o.r.t.l.a.n.d.o.r.u.s)
17 Mar 1999 00:34:04 -0800
In article <linux.kernel.19990317004021.B14484@anjala.mit.edu>,
Arvind Sankar <arvinds@mit.edu> wrote:
>On Tue, Mar 16, 1999 at 07:45:20PM -0500, Mattthew D. Pitts wrote:
>> Guys, most people use libc5 or glibc 2.0.x if they've installed from a
>> distribution. I'm running Redhat 5.0, which uses glibc 2.0.5, so if Star
>> Office installs a newer glibc, no big deal. It's when people are at the
>> leading edge that these kind of bugs "byte" them.
>>
>
>In other words, never upgrade because some poorly written program depends on
>undocumented functions and hence doesn't work with a new and better system?
>
>This isn't windows, its linux. We move to better things even if it breaks
>things that _don't_ depend on undocumented features.
And this is different from Windows in what way?
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david parsons \bi/ I'm sure that MS considers their incompatable upgrades
\/ to be better things too.
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