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Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2005 17:43:44 -0700
From: "Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@wolfmountaingroup.com>
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To: Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@firmix.at>
Cc: Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RFC: Starting a stable kernel series off the 2.6 kernel
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Bernd Petrovitsch wrote:

>On Sat, 2005-12-03 at 17:52 -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
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>>of this code. I have apps written for Windows in 1990 and 1998 that 
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>                       ^^^^
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>>still run on Windows XP today. Linux has no such concept of
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>But this not even holds for nearly all apps.
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>>backwards compatiblity. Every company who has embraced it outside of 
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>The same holds (probably) for Linux apps (given that your kernel can
>start a.out). And AFAIBT by Win* driver developers even in the Win*
>world you have to change your driver because of a new Win* version now
>and then.
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>	Bernd
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No.  BIND was has been busted between 2.4 and 2.6.  Not to mention the 
whole libc -> glib switchover.
It's hilarious that BSD had to create a Linux app compat lib, and the 
RedHat shipped compat libs for 3 releases
as well.   Not even close.  Windows has won.  M$ has won.  Linux lost 
the desktop wars and will soon loose
the server wars as well.   The reason - infighting and lack of backwards 
compatibility.  Binary only module
breakage kernel to kernel will continue. 

Jeff


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