On Wed, 2006-09-27 at 12:46 -0500, Fibonacci Prower wrote:
2006/9/27, Dan Williams <dcbw(a)redhat.com>:
On Wed, 2006-09-27 at 12:01 -0500, Fibonacci Prower wrote:
>
>
> 2006/9/27, Alan Cox <alan(a)redhat.com>:
> On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 11:42:56AM -0500, Fibonacci
Prower
> wrote:
> > And while they do, what? Stop using their programs
and hope
> they'll still
> > care about the Linux community to make a new
version?
>
> I guess its like other proprietary software that
broke forever
> due to windows
> upgrades and the like. Its part of the nature of
proprietary
> software.
>
> Which propietary software as ubiquitous as Flash broke
forever due to
> Windows upgrades?
Any of the Electronic Arts Need for Speed games before v4 (for
example
NfS III: Porsche Unleashed), only work on Win98 and
Win95. They do not
work on Windows 2000 or later. While not ubiquitous, NfS
certainly sold
in the millions, if not tens-of-millions, of units. That's no
small
number. This problem certainly exists in the Windows world,
no matter
how much effort MS puts into backwards compatibility.
I don't want to sound rude, but I don't think any developers care
about games - that is, unless they are the developers of the game. I'd
expect that sort of thing to happen with games the whole time.
That's fine, but then you have to allow that other people might not care
about -your- applications. It's a two-way street. It's just an example
from the Windows world about how updates break compatibility.
Dan
Dan
>
>
> Most likely someone will soon reverse engineer skype
entirely,
> at which point
> two things will happen, one of which is that skye to
standards
> compliant
> gateways will appear, the other regretably is that
millions of
> infected
> voice-spam boxes will begin phoning everyone on the
planet
> non-stop selling
> viagra.
>
> You not liking Skype is not a reason to remove support for
it. It's
> the only way millions of people have to talk with their
loved ones
> without the phone bill skyrocketing. And yes, that includes
me.
>
>
> Alan
>
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