Comment by praptak
2 months ago
Still a pretty good example of having to support something which is definitely not part of the official spec.
2 months ago
Still a pretty good example of having to support something which is definitely not part of the official spec.
Had it been open source, they could have just fixed the software instead
Fixing the upstream would not have updated it on the millions of machines running it, which is what they wanted to not break.
> Fixing the upstream would not have updated it on the millions of machines running it,
It was a very different world back then. You couldn't even assume a dial-up connection.
Nowadays, the software would have been automatically updated for 99% of the machines running it, whether they wanted that update or not.
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