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There's not even that much to TL;DR. Someone proposed a patch that would break binary compatibility. There was some argument about having to keep "30+ years of backwards compatibility."

Linus said the whole thing was dumb, the patch wasn't worth it, and that programs exist for users, so we can't just break things for the hell of it and expect people to use Linux.

you can enable showdead, bravura posted the whole content, but the comment is dead. Not sure why

edit: also ttt_ and father posted it and got auto killed.

Up here (and since you posted 0minutes ago, I imagine a refresh or two would fix it for you)