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SubjectRe: FENRIS (nwfs) 1.4.2 Source Code Available,
In <7kp55k$4hg@pell.pell.portland.or.us> david parsons (o.r.c@p.e.l.l.p.o.r.t.l.a.n.d.o.r.u.s) wrote:
> In article <linux.kernel.Pine.GSO.3.96.990622173758.9662H-100000@joni.pasture.net>,
> Robert Minichino <linuxkrn@denarius.com> wrote:

>>It's this ability to make major architectural changes that differentiates
>>free software from commercial software, as the accounting people and the
>>marketing people don't have any leverage as to what goes into the OS. It
>>allows us to stay "pure" in the technical sense and not full of legacy
>>wrappers and useless or over-hyped features. And the one place we REALLY
>>do not want legacy interfaces hanging around is the kernel.

> Linux hasn't been around long enough for anyone to call _any_ of the
> published interfaces ``legacy'' After 15 years, maybe, but certainly
> not after 8.

1 year is enough for internal kernel interfaces... Or even 1 month...

> ____
> david parsons \bi/ At 100k code-bloat per major release, there are many worse
> \/ things to worry about than whether it's time to kill
> off the stable interfaces

Code bloat is not a problem. Ugly hacks needed to keep old interfaces around is.




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