Re: [OT] Re: Troll Tech [was Re: Sco vs. IBM]

Stephan von Krawczynski (skraw@ithnet.com)
Sat, 21 Jun 2003 14:34:16 +0200


On Sat, 21 Jun 2003 07:37:21 +0000 (UTC)
"Henning P. Schmiedehausen" <hps@intermeta.de> wrote:

> Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw@ithnet.com> writes:
>
> >There are "operating systems" whos' live cycle is set to 3 years by the
> >manufacturer. How does a long-term strategy for a company doing application
>
> Hm. Speaking of support: Most programs for Windows 95/98 still run on
> my WinXP desktop. Those binaries for RedHat Linux 5.1 don't even link
> on RHL9.
>
> Regards
> Henning

Well Henning, question is: did you jump from W95/98 to XP? You should have
followed the product flow according to the vendor:

W95->W98->NT3->NT4->W2K->XP

Have you tried your apps on NT3/NT4? If they didn't work back _then_ you
probably have exchanged them back then - which was the original intention of
the whole story.
As you may remember the licenses were just adjusted to _prevent_ people from
upgrading "multi-hop", why do you think they did that?

Regards,
Stephan

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