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[Dan Williams]

On Wed, 2006-09-27 at 12:46 -0500, Fibonacci Prower wrote:
> 
> 
> 2006/9/27, Dan Williams <dcbw at redhat.com>:
>         On Wed, 2006-09-27 at 12:01 -0500, Fibonacci Prower wrote:
>         >
>         >
>         > 2006/9/27, Alan Cox <alan at 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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