[Gllug] just preaching to the converted !

Sun Oct 23 00:34:25 UTC 2005

Simon Morris wrote:

> Last time I checked there was 2.4 code in the Linux 2.6 kernel. No
> Operating System starts anew with each and every new version. This
> argument doesn't really make sense.

MS make great claims with every release that their shiny new OS is 
"completely new".  There are bugs from 10 years ago that are still present.

> The fascination with maintaing backwards compatibility with old
> Windows protocols (LanManager and NTLMv1) is a problem with Windows
> IMHO

You're not wrong.  It's a fairly major part of the problem.

Chris

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