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Re: [RFC] Splitting kernel headers and deprecating __KERNEL__

On Nov 30, 2004, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 30 Nov 2004, Alexandre Oliva wrote:

>> Then maybe this is the fundamental problem.  As long as the kernel
>> doesn't recognize that an ABI is a contract, rather than an
>> imposition, kernel developers won't care.

> That's a silly analogy. Worse, it's a very flawed analogy.

> If you want to use a legal analogy, the ABI is not a contract, it's a
> public _license_.

I didn't mean to use a legal analogy.  I meant contract in the
software engineering sense.  Sorry if that wasn't clear.

-- 
Alexandre Oliva             http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/
Red Hat Compiler Engineer   aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org}
Free Software Evangelist  oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org}
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