Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Linus is on a powertrip.. | Date | Thu, 1 Oct 1998 19:27:47 -0500 (CDT) | From | kwrohrer@ce ... |
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And lo, Eric S. Raymond saith unto me: > > Peter Mutsaers <plm@xs4all.nl>: > > [ 80 people can commit changes to FreeBSD] > > It is really a pity that the most popular free UNIX is so chaotic, and > > it's only becoming worse. Please don't misunderstand me: I'm not > > trying to pursuade anyone into FreeBSD, but I just wish that the most > > important free UNIX (which is Linux at the moment) would be more > > coherent and better organized. > > Chaos and openness are Linux's *strengths*. You have the causality backwards; > Linux is "the most important free Unix" precisely because it does *not* > follow the model you describe. Further, the chaos that feeds Linux is constructive chaos; the chaos that would ensue if 80 people had "final say" over various parts of Linux would be quite destructive, I think. Especially when cross-guru projects need doing, and none of the gurus will finally commit the changes because not all the other gurus have yet...
Keith
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