> What it actually takes is what the commercial OS vendors do (or used to do): have large libraries of important apps that they drive through a mix of automated and manual testing to discover quickly when they broke something.
There are already sophisticated binary analysis tools for detecting ABI breakages, not to mention extensive guidelines.
> And, the Linux/GNU world never had a commercial "customer is always right" culture on this topic.
Vendors like Red Hat are extremely attentive towards their customers. But if you're not paying, then you only deserve whatever attention they choose to give you.
There are already sophisticated binary analysis tools for detecting ABI breakages, not to mention extensive guidelines.
> And, the Linux/GNU world never had a commercial "customer is always right" culture on this topic.
Vendors like Red Hat are extremely attentive towards their customers. But if you're not paying, then you only deserve whatever attention they choose to give you.