From owner-cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 10 19:52:23 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-src@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1557316A4CE; Thu, 10 Mar 2005 19:52:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: from www.portaone.com (support.portaone.com [195.70.151.35]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E68B43D2D; Thu, 10 Mar 2005 19:52:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sobomax@portaone.com) Received: from [192.168.1.26] (SIRIUS-ats227-UTC.ukrtel.net [195.5.25.154]) (authenticated bits=0) by www.portaone.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j2AJj8sH089381 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 10 Mar 2005 20:45:15 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from sobomax@portaone.com) Message-ID: <4230A3B7.1000402@portaone.com> Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 21:44:55 +0200 From: Maxim Sobolev Organization: Porta Software Ltd User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Scott Long References: <422E407B.4080507@portaone.com> <86k6oht386.fsf@xps.des.no> <422F087F.9030906@portaone.com> <20050309.085035.129356491.imp@bsdimp.com> <422F6703.70409@portaone.com> <20050310161607.GO98930@myrddin.originative.co.uk> <86d5u7fn1z.fsf@xps.des.no> <20050310171917.GQ98930@myrddin.originative.co.uk> <42308769.5080506@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <42308769.5080506@samsco.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.80/685/Wed Jan 26 10:08:24 2005 clamav-milter version 0.80j on www.portaone.com X-Virus-Status: Clean cc: src-committers@FreeBSD.org cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org cc: alfred@FreeBSD.org cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org cc: Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav cc: "M. Warner Losh" cc: Paul Richards Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/compat/linux linux_socket.c X-BeenThere: cvs-src@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the src tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 19:52:23 -0000 Scott Long wrote: > Paul Richards wrote: > >> On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 06:06:16PM +0100, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote: >> >>> Paul Richards writes: >>> >>>> Imagine something like Photoshop being written on the most recent >>>> version of Mac OS X and finding that compatibility only worked >>>> forward. That would mean that most users out there would have to >>>> upgrade their OS in order to use the most recent version of Photoshop! >>> >>> >>> Yes, that is usually how it goes. >> >> >> >> I don't believe it does. Can anyone provide real world examples of >> this happening that we can consider? >> > > You know, I'm completely outraged that I can't use MSWord 2005 on my > Windows 3.1 system! I even installed the win32s library! Don't those > bozos at Microsoft care at all about forwards compatibility? Well, know what? This is really bad example. For what MS can't be blaimed it is the lack of forward and backward compatibility. I still can run Office 2003 on Windows 95 without any problems. -Maxim