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I don't see the backward compatibility burden being very high. The core protocol just keeps working.
by quotemstr 9y ago
I don't see the backward compatibility burden being very high. The core protocol just keeps working.
- kronos29296 9y agoMicrosoft spends millions for backward compatibility and they charge a fortune for that. This is an open source project with not as much resources and the core protocol of X was never made for GUI. It was made for displaying a cute clock on the screen when there was no concept of GUI. They extended it to do something it was never meant to do. Youtube talk about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIctzAQOe44 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIctzAQOe44