it would certainly be more fun if the a significant amount of open source wasn't open crap.
brucee On 1/21/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Excuses, excuses. I thought the mantra was "Given enough > eyeballs all bugs are shallow"? Maybe they should augment the > rooms full of penguins typing code with rooms full of spiders > giving it the eight-eyeball lookover. Also, what is behind > the eyeballs, the skills can be shallower than the bugs. > > --jim > > On Fri Jan 20 17:20:26 EST 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On 1/20/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Compatibility mode? Why? Surely you just recompile the programme for > > > the target machine, you have the source, after all. A minute, tops. > > > > > > --jim > > > > It comes from the fact that some of the code is not-so-portable - > > OpenOffice 1x being popular example (don't know about 2.0), as it > > didn't compile on amd64 (some bugs in the code, remember, it comes > > back from StarDivision and OS/2 :D). There's a lot more of it, > > thaknfully limited mostly to closed-source software. > > > > M$ is having the same trouble, having to supply 386 IE for basically > > every architecture NT is working on (From what I remember, 386 IE is > > included in Alpha, IA-64 and AMD64 ones) :) > > > > > > > > -- > > Paweł Lasek > > "Once a hitokiri, always a hitokiri. This will never change" - Jine-Ei > On Fri Jan 20 17:20:26 EST 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On 1/20/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Compatibility mode? Why? Surely you just recompile the programme for > > > the target machine, you have the source, after all. A minute, tops. > > > > > > --jim > > > > It comes from the fact that some of the code is not-so-portable - > > OpenOffice 1x being popular example (don't know about 2.0), as it > > didn't compile on amd64 (some bugs in the code, remember, it comes > > back from StarDivision and OS/2 :D). There's a lot more of it, > > thaknfully limited mostly to closed-source software. > > > > M$ is having the same trouble, having to supply 386 IE for basically > > every architecture NT is working on (From what I remember, 386 IE is > > included in Alpha, IA-64 and AMD64 ones) :) > > > > > > > > -- > > Paweł Lasek > > "Once a hitokiri, always a hitokiri. This will never change" - Jine-Ei >
