Linus on Gnome 3.2

[Michael Hill]

On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 5:17 PM, Christopher Browne <cbbrowne-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> If you're killing off backwards compatibility, then you're on is
> likely, in essence, a new project, and it should be called such.  It
> looks a lot like what's happening with Gnome is a whole lot like this.

Why is GNOME the first project to be held to that standard?  I've been
around Linux long enough to have seen backwards compatibility killed
off before.  Where would we be if it hadn't?

Mike
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