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

Arvind Sankar (arvinds@mit.edu)
Wed, 17 Mar 1999 00:40:21 -0500

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On Tue, Mar 16, 1999 at 07:45:20PM -0500, Mattthew D. Pitts wrote:
> Guys, most people use libc5 or glibc 2.0.x if they've installed from a
> distribution. I'm running Redhat 5.0, which uses glibc 2.0.5, so if Star
> Office installs a newer glibc, no big deal. It's when people are at the
> leading edge that these kind of bugs "byte" them.
>

In other words, never upgrade because some poorly written program depends on
undocumented functions and hence doesn't work with a new and better system?

This isn't windows, its linux. We move to better things even if it breaks
things that _don't_ depend on undocumented features.

-- arvind

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