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

[Bruce Ellis <bruce.ellis@gmail.com>]

it would certainly be more fun if the a significant amount of
open source wasn't open crap.

brucee

On 1/21/06, jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com <jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com> 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, 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
>