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GNU + Linux = broken development model

GNU + Linux = broken development model

Posted Jul 30, 2009 11:43 UTC (Thu) by mb (subscriber, #50428)
In reply to: GNU + Linux = broken development model by jond
Parent article: A tempest in a tty pot

> To be fair to the parent (who I also disagree with) that particular problem only exists due to the lack of a stable kernel API.

No that is completely wrong. The required API was not available (because it was not yet developed) in 2.6.26.
Having a stable API/ABI does not help this at all.

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