Messages in this thread | | | From | "Khimenko Victor" <> | Date | Tue, 17 Nov 1998 20:05:28 +0300 (MSK) | Subject | Re: Sound still broken but has improved a bit. |
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17-Nov-98 01:49 you wrote: > Alan Cox wrote: >> >> > Real Audio does work good now until there is a net congestion. >> > I don't understand the reasoning in changing the sound, bug >> > or not until a new version of RealAudio comes. What it is >> > going to do is piss off a lot of potential Linux users. >> > We can't dictate to RealAudio, we're not their bread and >> > butter, winblows is. >> >> because real would never have fixed the bug until we changed the kernel, >> they;ve had about 3 months notice.
> This reminds me of Microsoft's behavior. Just look at the > programs that no longer works with winblows 98.
Yeah, this is problem.
> You're heading in the same direction ...
Not at all. In windows world backword binary compatibility is fetish and when MS clams that Windows98 is compatible with Windows95 while in real Windows98 is not compatible with Windows95 this is a problem and pain. BINARY compatibility is not in favour in Linux world at all. You have sources, someone will make a patch, no problem. Ahh, you does not have sources ? Sorry. It's your problem.
> The ones hurt is the Linux community not Real Audio.
Looks like you are serious :-(( Gosh. Linux world is changing to worse :-(( Now we have guys who think that binary backword compatibility is something that should be kept while upgrading from Linux 2.0 to Linux 2.2... Gosh. This is not even true for 2.0.x (binary drivers for 2.0.34 will be useless for 2.0.35) and why this shouls be true for 2.2 I'm doubt. Yes, binary compatibility is not something completely useless and if you can keep binary compatibility without creating mess (in kernel, library, etc) usually things are done this way but if choice is: break binary compatibility or create mess (in kernel, library, etc) choice in Linux world is always to break binary compatibility. If this is not what you want then go back in Windows world and think: why it's so messy, slow, bloat and prone to crashes... When you'll understood this you'll understood why Read Player should be fixed not linux kernel :-))
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