That's a great theory, but Linus picks and chooses when to decide it's outrageous to make changes that break userland tools based on his personal preferences. They intentionally broke ZFS - then Linus follows up with a wildly inaccurate statement about why he thinks nobody should use ZFS.
It's difficult to take him seriously when he picks and chooses when to enforce his supposed "never break userland" ethos.
It's difficult to take him seriously when he picks and chooses when to enforce his supposed "never break userland" ethos.