Strategy (was Re: Improving copyright)

[Niall Douglas]

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On 15 May 2004 at 22:56, Adam Sampson wrote:

> > If you can find me an X11 binary from 1996 than runs unmodified on a
> > modern installation without using some legacy binary compatibility
> > package then I'll gladly retract my assertion.
> 
> This sounded like a fun challenge. It took me a few minutes to find a
> binary that old that used X11, but eventually I succeeded:
> 
>   <http://offog.org/stuff/mosaic.png>
> 
> That screenshot shows the NCSA Mosaic 2.5 Linux binary from 1995
> running happily on my GNU/Linux 2.6.5 machine. I downloaded the
> binary, uncompressed it, and it worked. It doesn't render my web pages
> very well, but it's nine years behind the state of the art in HTML. ;)

Wow, I'm *impressed*. It also brings back memories, I haven't seen 
NCSA Mosaic in a very, very long time.

I retract my statement that you can't run unmodified Linux binaries 
from 1996 on modern systems. Thanks for proving me wrong.

Cheers,
Niall





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