From: Jon M. Taylor <taylorj@ecs.csus.edu>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 22:26:12 -0800 (PST)

Re: Linus on linuxworld

On Wed, 24 Mar 1999, Sengan Baring-Gould wrote:

> 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?

	LibGGI3D is my ansew to this.  Only a few API calls and data
structures, and everything else is just implementation details. 

Jon

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