Re:Glibc is still not Y2038 compliant by default
by btown on Wednesday December 29, 2021 @09:41AM
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> upgrades move faster in the OSS world
There are many who don’t think like this. Microsoft has dedicated teams that ensure backwards compatibility for legacy applications, and even then people stay on XP. If you have an inherited Ubuntu system that has been happily running a proprietary binary for years, there’s even less guarantee (and certainly no marketing organization making that guarantee) that an upgrade won’t break things. And so you fall far behind LTS.
There are many who don’t think like this. Microsoft has dedicated teams that ensure backwards compatibility for legacy applications, and even then people stay on XP. If you have an inherited Ubuntu system that has been happily running a proprietary binary for years, there’s even less guarantee (and certainly no marketing organization making that guarantee) that an upgrade won’t break things. And so you fall far behind LTS.