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Re:I think Catalina 10.15.4 broke SSH by beart on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @07:30PM (#22743956)
Assume this is true. Why is it a good thing? If the looser spec handling on Windows fixes the bug without introducing other problems, then from the user perspective, Windows is doing the correct thing and OSX is failing.
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Re:I think Catalina 10.15.4 broke SSH by zimpenfish on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @02:53AM (#22746351)
But it then ends up with standards being meaningless and people who are running not-Windows get screwed (like UEFI, ACPI, and various other nonsenses that "work fine" on Windows but not on Linux, etc.)
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Re:I think Catalina 10.15.4 broke SSH by beart on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @07:11PM (#22754527)
That assumes Microsoft broke the spec and the hardware was designed for it. The scenario in the thread is that the hardware broke the spec and Microsoft just made it work. I don't think that's much different than a lot of other software. Look at all the application specific code and fixes added to graphics drivers, for example.
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