Re: [OFFTOPIC]: MS Porting Office to Linux?

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
17 Mar 1999 06:13:44 GMT


Followup to: <19990317004021.B14484@anjala.mit.edu>
By author: Arvind Sankar <arvinds@mit.edu>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> This isn't windows, its linux. We move to better things even if it breaks
> things that _don't_ depend on undocumented features.
>

Uh, yeah, although we should avoid doing that whenever possible.
However, unlike Windows we *do* use that one exception :)

-hpa

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