> In other words, the Linux desktop as a whole is a Bazaar, not Cathedral.
This was true in the 90s, not the 2020s.
There are enough moneyed interests that control the entirety of Linux now. If someone at Canonical or Red Hat thought a glibc version translation layer (think WINE, but for running software targeted for Linux systems made more than the last breaking glibc version) was a good enough idea, it could get implemented pretty rapidly. Instead of win32+wine being the only stable abi on Linux, Linux could have the most stable abi on Linux.
This was true in the 90s, not the 2020s.
There are enough moneyed interests that control the entirety of Linux now. If someone at Canonical or Red Hat thought a glibc version translation layer (think WINE, but for running software targeted for Linux systems made more than the last breaking glibc version) was a good enough idea, it could get implemented pretty rapidly. Instead of win32+wine being the only stable abi on Linux, Linux could have the most stable abi on Linux.