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TLDR: The developers of the GNU/Linux userland libraries do not care about binary compatibility.

• josteink 7y ago
  Binary compatibility is only a pressing issue if the majority of the software you run is closed source and not provided by your distro. Why waste time maintaining something which is not needed?
  • wolfgke 7y ago
    > Binary compatibility is only a pressing issue if the majority of the software you run is closed source and not provided by your distro. Binary compatibility is a very pressing issue if there exist software that is closed source and you want to have more users than just some nerds.
    • josteink 7y ago
      I don’t care about closed source software. I don’t care about massive non-nerd adoption of Linux. None of those things benefit me or drives the things I care about. Either way: The enormous success of Linux despite these issues seems to be evidence contrary to your claim.