Other systems have the same "usually works but no promises" disposition which means they can't be relied upon. Things work fine until they don't. When breakage occurs they take no responsibility for them because they didn't promise anything to begin with.
Torvalds says today's Linux can run binaries from the 90s, that's how serious this guy is about ABIs. I've never seen other operating system developers claim anything of the sort. Not even Microsoft.
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...
Other systems have the same "usually works but no promises" disposition which means they can't be relied upon. Things work fine until they don't. When breakage occurs they take no responsibility for them because they didn't promise anything to begin with.
Torvalds says today's Linux can run binaries from the 90s, that's how serious this guy is about ABIs. I've never seen other operating system developers claim anything of the sort. Not even Microsoft.