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This is also quoted in a Joel Spolsky's article: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2004/06/13/how-microsoft-lost-the-api-war/ https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2004/

This is also quoted in a Joel Spolsky's article: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2004/06/13/how-microsoft-lost-the-api-war/ https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2004/06/13/how-microsoft-lost... I love the 'Raymond Chen Camp's way of looking at things. xx

digi_owl 9y ago
I really wish all those people chasing the "desktop Linux" mirage while breaking APIs at whim would internalize this. If they want desktop Linux to happen, they need to stop chasing eyecandy and stabilize the plumbing behavior, no matter how much that thought offends their developer pride.
- emodendroket 9y ago
  That's really not a problem of the kernel, though, is it? Also, I think bigger challenges to desktop Linux are the degree of configurability, drivers (maybe that's better), and the fact that the GUI is never a first-class method of using the app but instead a hastily-written wrapper on top of a command line tool.