From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,d581a4c04b0d7daf X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news2.google.com!news4.google.com!news.glorb.com!newspeer1.se.telia.net!se.telia.net!masternews.telia.net.!newsb.telia.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn_Persson?= User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060614) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: SAL, Auto_Text_IO release References: <1150721215.234108.92870@g10g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> <1150724261.793315.237890@p79g2000cwp.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:07:02 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 83.250.108.49 X-Complaints-To: abuse@telia.com X-Trace: newsb.telia.net 1150762022 83.250.108.49 (Tue, 20 Jun 2006 02:07:02 CEST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 02:07:02 CEST Organization: Telia Internet Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:4844 Date: 2006-06-20T00:07:02+00:00 List-Id: M E Leypold wrote: > I don't want to say anything nice about Windows, but since its almost > the only nice thing that can be said about it: Windows retained far > reaching binary compatibility over more then 10 years. That is, you > can upgrade your hardware, load a newer windows on it and install your > old proved software. Well, that's because Windows software is *supposed* to be proprietary. For free software, binary compatibility isn't so important, as it can usually be recompiled easily. It's quite understandable if free software advocates don't bend themselves over to support proprietary software. -- Bj�rn Persson PGP key A88682FD omb jor ers @sv ge. r o.b n.p son eri nu