From: Sengan Baring-Gould <sengan@seqnet.net>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 20:17:27 -0700

Linus on linuxworld

http://www.linuxworld.com/linuxworld/lw-1999-03/lw-03-opensources.html

Rule number 1 for keeping the kernel healthy: avoid new system interfaces.
Once you give an interface to users they will start coding to it and once
somebody starts coding to it you are stuck with it. Do you want to support
the exact same interface for the rest of your system's life?

Given that graphics evolves very quickly, isn't the above actually rather
hard
to achieve beyond a framebuffer?

Sengan