On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 04:21:35AM +0100, Manuel Viet wrote:
> The only acceptable backward compatibility is source-level compatibility.
> Aiming for binary compatibility is akin to painting a huge target on your
> buttock and running around screaming "kick me !". Eventually, you will be.
>
> The linux kernel api has changed at about every major release since 10 years,
> but nobody cares because nearly all programs are compiled for the new target.
> Binary only programs break, but that's just another incentive to use only
> open source.
my point, exactly...
davidt
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