Messages in this thread | | | From | "Khimenko Victor" <> | Date | Wed, 23 Jun 1999 16:28:44 +0400 (MSD) | Subject | Re: FENRIS (nwfs) 1.4.2 Source Code Available, |
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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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