Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sat, 20 Mar 1999 22:29:55 +0100 | | From | jens@pinguin ... | | Subject | Re: [WAY WAY WAY OFFTOPIC]: MS Porting Office to Linux? |
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On Sat, Mar 20, 1999 at 12:23:42AM -0800, david parsons wrote:
> >> >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? I'm sure that MS > >> considers their incompatable upgrades to be better things too. > >You don't have to sign NDAs to get the API and change your existing apps > >so that they fit. > Umm. I've got a crashing web proxy and a lf that produces '?' instead of > ' ' that would like to have a word with you.
with "your apps" I meant "apps you (co-)wrote"[0].
[0] the important bit being "apps you have the source of", here
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