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Re:Torvalds: Standards are paper. I use paper to wipe my but... by flomo on Saturday March 26, 2011 @12:21PM (#2372449)
What? The whole raison d'être of Windows 95 was backwards-compatibility with primordial PC junk. The entire thing was a hack from top-to-bottom, far beyond a workaround for a particular game.

Also, to quote Linus:

"And what was the point of making [an OS] again? Was it to teach everybody a lesson, or was it to give the user a nice experience?"

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