Messages in this thread | | | From | (david parsons) | Subject | Re: FENRIS (nwfs) 1.4.2 Source Code Available, | Date | 22 Jun 1999 16:10:44 -0700 |
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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.
____ 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
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