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On Nov 30, 2004, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote: > On Tue, 30 Nov 2004, Alexandre Oliva wrote: >> Then maybe this is the fundamental problem. As long as the kernel >> doesn't recognize that an ABI is a contract, rather than an >> imposition, kernel developers won't care. > That's a silly analogy. Worse, it's a very flawed analogy. > If you want to use a legal analogy, the ABI is not a contract, it's a > public _license_. I didn't mean to use a legal analogy. I meant contract in the software engineering sense. Sorry if that wasn't clear. -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org}
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