https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/05/24/strategy-letter-ii-chicken-and-egg-problems/ https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/05/24/strategy-letter-ii... Simcity

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/05/24/strategy-letter-ii-chicken-and-egg-problems/ https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/05/24/strategy-letter-ii... Simcity supported in Win95 by allowing a use-after-free bug (if i am reading it right) to continue working. You get something similar in Linux by how once a userspace facing API is in the wild, the API stays, bugs and all, in case something, somewhere, use that specific behavior. A newer API will be introduce alongside the "broken" one however, with future code highly incentivized to use the newer API. Sadly that level of stringent API behavior is seen not as a virtue but as a burden by higher layer devs. Often to the point that the refuse to work with Torvalds after being berated for their lax attitudes, and dream of the day he retires...