Microsoft hits new ethical low point?

[Derek Atkins]

John Chambers <jc at trillian.mit.edu> writes:

> In comparison, I have Unix software that I wrote 15  years  ago  that
> still compiles and runs without problems on any Unix-like system from
> any vendor.
> 
> We really should be publicising things like this.  If  you  seriously
> want  a  common platform, Microsoft flunks even the most basic tests,
> while Unix, with all its warts, does a fairly decent job of providing
> portability  across  years, hardware changes, and even major rewrites
> of the kernel.

<Devil's Advocate>
But I have to recompile my software for every release of Linux,
Solaris, IRIX, OSF/DUnix, *BSD, etc.  I don't have to recompile my
software for Windows.  Once I've built it, it works.  It will work on
all variants, and it will work on all systems.  I can't even build a
single Linux application that will work on all versions of a single
release of Linux (it wont work across Linux/x86, Linux/sparc,
Linux/ppc, Linux/alpha, etc.)
</Devil's Advocate>

-derek
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