> On Jul 24, 2017, at 12:43 PM, John Snow <js...@redhat.com> wrote: > > > > On 07/21/2017 05:06 AM, Igor Mammedov wrote: >> On Thu, 20 Jul 2017 21:29:33 +0200 >> Phil Dennis-Jordan <li...@philjordan.eu> wrote: >>> On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 6:40 PM, Programmingkid >>> <programmingk...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> I noticed that Windows 2000 does not boot up in QEMU recently. After >>>> bisecting the issue I found the offending commit: >> w2k is very ancient (and long time EOLed), I can't even download it from >> msdn to test >> (oldest available is XP) >> do we really care about it? > > Red Hat: "No, not really." > FOSS: "Yes, of course!" > > Half the fun of QEMU (see also: QEMU Advent Calendar) is running old > software. Technology moves so fast that even software from just 17 years ago > is becoming impossible to run. > > For historical and archival purposes it is absolutely of interest to be able > to run one of Microsoft's most popular operating systems. > > Of course, it's not particularly high on anyone's list who is getting paid to > tend to QEMU, of course. > > —js
Well said.
