His fictional story reminds me of the Homebrew 2.7 debacle: https://github.com/Homebrew/discussions/discussions/340 https://github.com/Homebrew/discussions/disc

His fictional story reminds me of the Homebrew 2.7 debacle: https://github.com/Homebrew/discussions/discussions/340 https://github.com/Homebrew/discussions/discussions/340 TL;DR: They deprecated "brew cask install" in version 2.6, then removed it in version 2.7. Sounds fine, right? Except version 2.6 was released on December 1st, and 2.7 was released 20 days later on December 21st, breaking everyone's scripts just before the holidays. I agree with the overall premise, but there's a balance to be had somewhere. When millions of developers use your tools, you do have to be a little more careful when you make breaking changes. I think Linus has a point here with his "don't break userspace" rule.