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[OM] Re: E3 firmware update AAARRRGGGHHH!!!

Subject: [OM] Re: E3 firmware update AAARRRGGGHHH!!!
From: <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2008 03:23:18 +0000
Ugh!

Chuck Norcutt


>  -------Original Message-------
>  From: Manuel Viet <oly@xxxxxxxxxx>
>  Subject: [OM] Re: E3 firmware update AAARRRGGGHHH!!!
>  Sent: Feb 01 '08 03:21
>  
>  
>  Le vendredi 1 Février 2008 03:14, Dan Mitchell a écrit :
>  > chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>  > > Yes, the OS must absolutely remain backwardly compatible and,
>  > >
>  >  > no, it is not impossible to maintain compatibility while at the
>  >  > same time offering improvements in function and performance.
>  >
>  >   [ignoring the OS-war issue of "is windows v_n+1 better than windows v_n:
>  > ]
>  >
>  >   Ah, the Raymond Chen school of thought -- and while it's possible to
>  > do this, you can end up with a lot of things that you might not at first
>  > expect:
>  
>  The only acceptable backward compatibility is source-level compatibility.
>  Aiming for binary compatibility is akin to painting a huge target on your
>  buttock and running around screaming "kick me !". Eventually, you will be.
>  
>  The linux kernel api has changed at about every major release since 10 years,
>  but nobody cares because nearly all programs are compiled for the new target.
>  Binary only programs break, but that's just another incentive to use only
>  open source.
>  
>  R. Chen is just a brilliant hacker, but that's not the right stuff to be a
>  good programmer. Of course, given MS policy, he has no choice. But the day
>  your bread and butter program will hit a bug caused by a compatibility hack
>  inserted to run a silly company's bucket of rotten bits, you will regret that
>  *awful* and *unprofessionnal* behaviour from MS.
>  
>  --
>  Manuel Viet
>  
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