Hi,

[I will comment only on the Linux interface part, commenting on the
rest being pointless.]

On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
<[email protected]> wrote:
> By the way, the Linux kernel employs a similar way to encourage upstream
> contribution: The internal interfaces of the kernel are changed often
> enough so that maintaining a module out of tree is really painful.
>
Please stop spreading FUD.

Please, point me a single commit in Linux tree saying: "Change
interface FUU to make BAR's life a hell supporting their fork". Linux
internal interfaces are changed for technical reason, not to make
outside developer's life a hell.

If your remark was to be true, Linux people would be really, but
_really_ bad at doing this job and I wouldn't be able to support 21
different kernel, 7 years worth of development, with nothing more than
a few header glue for a module hooking with the network stack,
netfilter, and the socket layer.

 - Arnaud
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