> Otherwise various efforts making use of containers, lightweight virtualization, and binary wrappers for the purposes of introducing new options to companies allowing them reasonable backward compatibility for the various applications that have become entrenched in their organizations will be the only way to break away from the stagnation of the current paradigm of enterprise operating system development.
That was essentially what MS did with "Windows on Windows" that brought 16-bit applications over to Win32. And Apple with Rosetta, the blue box, etc. These were hugely expensive because they had to track down all the unwritten interfaces applications use.
If Linux standardizes virtualization for enterprise support, applications should run in it all the time, so it's impossible for them to access any private interfaces.
And it's sustainable because when enterprises find they're stuck with these closed source applications, they'll have a direct interest in supporting maintenance of the older virtualization.
That was essentially what MS did with "Windows on Windows" that brought 16-bit applications over to Win32. And Apple with Rosetta, the blue box, etc. These were hugely expensive because they had to track down all the unwritten interfaces applications use.
If Linux standardizes virtualization for enterprise support, applications should run in it all the time, so it's impossible for them to access any private interfaces.
And it's sustainable because when enterprises find they're stuck with these closed source applications, they'll have a direct interest in supporting maintenance of the older virtualization.