Comment Re:Total Flamebait (Score 1) 165
Seriously if this bothers you, you need to not deal with F/OSS software. Backwards compatibility is no where on the feature list, its almost 'broken by design' as those developing the code have no need or reason personally to maintain backwards compatibility. You have the source, you can fix the bug and recompile!
Backwards compatibility is one thing. Broken stuff is another. If something is broken, the Linux Vendors will fix it (depending on their knowledge). But if you updated software X to version 2.0, you should be aware that it may require a newer version of lib Y.