Re: [9fans] Maybe it is april fool's after all ...

[jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com]

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, pawel.lasek@gmail.com wrote:
> On 1/20/06, jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com <jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com> 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, pawel.lasek@gmail.com wrote:
> On 1/20/06, jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com <jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com> 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