2008/12/11 Pierre Coupard <p...@alum.com>: > Wow, way to mess up an analogy. Apple's MacOS is indeed notoriously bad > at maintaining backward compatibility, because Apple wants to get rid of > the old cruft. Microsoft however has an operating system that, however > bad, still runs DOS software in emulation 30 years down the line, > complete with the bugs of the time.
Apple breaks an extreme amount as it deprecates its own standards as does Microsoft, however Unix programs written according to standards 30 years ago, can be made to run on both Apple and even Microsoft now, due to both platforms increasing their Posix compliance. How this applies to a wiki I have no idea. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The future of the web can't happen without you. Join us at MIX09 to help pave the way to the Next Web now. Learn more and register at http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitmix.com/ _______________________________________________ Moin-user mailing list Moin-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/moin-user
