Re: Call for RH6 glibc update

[Alan Shutko <ats acm org>]

brian worldcontrol com writes:

> I could care less about who did what to whom when.

If you are going to stop buying software that's buggy, you should.

> Apple, and I suspect, other companies strive mightily to make sure all
> major and most minor third party applications work with new releases
> of their OS.  In fact, Apple tests them themselves and either advises
> the vendor of the problem, or sends them the fix.

Apparently, Star Division knew.  They know now.  They probably knew
when they wrote the buggy code that they weren't doing something
smart.  

Where's their fix?  

> The model 'nah, nah, its their fault, not ours' is not going to make it
> in the business computing world.  People want solutions that work,
> not finger pointing.

Right... which means, don't use Star Office, because they muck around
with internals.  How is this any different from the scores of Windows
programs which broke between Windows 3.1 and 98?

> RedHat has established the policy that interoperability with existing
> major software products is not a concern of theirs.  I think that people
> for whom that is a concern will look elsewhere for an OS.  

And guess what?  It'll still be broken on any other OS using glibc2.1.
And until Star Division fixes their code, it'll still be broken.  

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