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Apple can regularly change how things are done because they have absolute control over their platform and use an "our way or the highway" approach to breaking c

Apple can regularly change how things are done because they have absolute control over their platform and use an "our way or the highway" approach to breaking changes, where developers have to go along or lose access to a lucrative market. This approach really really would not work on Linux: consider that the rollout of systemd was one-tenth as dictatorial as is SOP for changes from Apple, and it caused legions of Linux users to scream for Poettering's head on a stick.

vlovich123 3y ago
That's not a path dependency though. That's just a critique of the bazaar development model. And honestly I think if the big distros got together and agreed this would be a significant security improvement, they could drag the community kicking & screaming just like they did with systemd (people hated systemd so much at first that they tried to get other init systems to not suck but over time persistent effort wins out).