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GNU + Linux = broken development model

Posted Jul 29, 2009 17:41 UTC (Wed) by fuhchee (subscriber, #40059)
In reply to: GNU + Linux = broken development model by mheily
Parent article: A tempest in a tty pot

This illustrates why dividing the kernel and the userland into two totally separate projects is a broken development model that doesn't scale.

Tell that to Microsoft, or almost any other system software vendor, which values backward binary compatibility.

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