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cturner on Sept 13, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Is Ubuntu Driving Users Away?

if it works and have stuff built against it, why would you touch it again?

rbanffy on Sept 13, 2011 [–]

To improve it. Even IBM's VM could be improved (and was). The trick is trying not to break interfaces.

But even that is something you should do from time to time. I don't think many current versions of Windows support Win16 software.

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