Fedora philosophy (was ATI video comes out of the closet)

[Les Mikesell]

Alan Cox wrote:
>> Sometimes, sometimes not.  Suppose you had developed something as an 
>> add-on to CIPE tunnels on the RHEL3/kernel 2.4.  There's no concession 
>> to backwards compatibility on RHEL4 and later.
> 
> Which is a good thing. A very good thing as CIPE turned out to have
> fundamental security failings. 

As have lots of other things that were fixed rather than discarded. But 
I'm not trying to second-guess whether changes were good or bad here, 
just pointing out that you can't count on anything to be the same 
between releases.

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   Les Mikesell
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