Re: RE: Big Brother is Real

[Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>]

On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 07:16:14PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 04:12:24PM -0800, Stephan Mueller wrote:
>>Speaking only for myself, and not my employer (because I don't know what
>>he thinks) I can only say that from everyone I've met, and everything I
>>do know, it appears to me that API changes are always made with
>>backwards compatibility in mind, and the goal is never to break existing
>>apps -- indeed, the efforts made to remain compatible with existing apps
>>are astounding.
>
>Given how stupid tricks that were developed on Windows NT3.5 (or
>earlier) continue to work on Windows 95, Windows 98, W2K, Windows NT4.0,
>and Windows XP.  I think I can testify to that effort.

...and by stupid tricks, I mean stupid tricks used in cygwin, of course...

cgf

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