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No. Breaking other people's code is why we have this broken software world where new bugs (and security holes) are added everywhere all the time since no software is allowed to just exist without monthly rewrites. We need a culture where breaking backwards compatibility in published APIs is almost unthinkable, not something anyone would want to be caught doing.

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