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[Fibonacci Prower]

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.

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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