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by uriel 6209 days ago
I will quote Al Viro (IMHO the best Linux kernel hacker by far):

    Yeah... "Infinitely extendable API" and all such. Roughly translated as "we
    can't live without API bloat". Frankly, judging by the GNOME codebase people
    who designed the thing [GNOME] are culturally incompatible with UNIX.