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He is not saying that the "big guys" are allowed to break APIs. He is remarking that in the case of major libraries, they break APIs. Thats simply an observatio

He is not saying that the "big guys" are allowed to break APIs. He is remarking that in the case of major libraries, they break APIs. Thats simply an observation, nothing else.

tener 10y ago
Ah this is possible, but then this observation seems limited to me as smaller libraries break APIs too.
- chme 10y ago
  The API break of Gnome 2 to Gnome 3 and KDE 3 to KDE 4 etc. are just more commonly known than those of some small library. So it is just a good example.