World of Goo Update, 10 Years Later

Re:World of Goo Update, 10 Years Later by wolfgke on Thursday May 02, 2019 @07:03AM (#19806581)

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

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Re:World of Goo Update, 10 Years Later by josteink on Thursday May 02, 2019 @10:29AM (#19808257)

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?

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Re:World of Goo Update, 10 Years Later by wolfgke on Thursday May 02, 2019 @11:19AM (#19808772)

> 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.

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Re:World of Goo Update, 10 Years Later by josteink on Thursday May 02, 2019 @12:23PM (#19809573)

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.

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