Am 08.10.2014 um 20:25 schrieb Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com>: > > On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 1:11 PM, Marcelo Ricardo Leitner > <marcelo.leitner at gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> >>> But oddly, he didn't even mention that there would be a real simple >>> solution - just add backwards-compatible improvements instead of >>> actively wrecking the interfaces everyone else had depended on for >>> decades. >> >> >> "decades". That, by itself, already calls for an update, no? > > No, do you dig a new foundation for your house every 10 years? Trade > in your wife and kids? > >> But so did other systems, but they later found out that sometimes you have >> to break this backwards to infinity compatibility in order to get some big >> progress. > > Only if the design was bad in the first place. And if the design was > really bad, there wouldn't be any users to infuriate by breaking the > interfaces they use. But the unix design that linux and linux > distributions copied was pretty good, including the way init started > things. was - the requirements at that time were nearly/completely different. We have different scenarios right now. -- LF