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Re:Show HN: Windows 2000 on Docker by djbusby on Sunday November 14, 2021 @12:36PM (#29218794)
And just recently on here I was talking about how MS is known for backwards compat but we actually observe Linux doing it better
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Re:Show HN: Windows 2000 on Docker by rbanffy on Sunday November 14, 2021 @03:31PM (#29220375)
While breaking backwards compatibility with user space apps is frowned upon, I can’t imagine Linus approving adding old bugs so that buggy programs can still work.
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