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kwanbix
5 days ago
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Loss32: Let's Build a Win32/Linux
I am not an expert on this, but my question is, how does windows manages to achieve it? Why can't Linux do the same?
johnny22
5 days ago
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because they care about ABI/API stability.
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nineteen999
4 days ago
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And have an ever decreasing market share, in desktop, hypervisor and server space. The API/ABI stability is probably the only thing stemming the customer leakage at all. It's not the be all and end all.
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ogogmad
4 days ago
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Decreasing market share in
the desktop
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immibis
4 days ago
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Yes, but Windows is even so bad, it's been decreasing market share
of desktops
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