Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 1 Oct 1998 18:13:12 +0300 ( ) | From | Jukka Tapani Santala <> | Subject | Re: [OT] Linux's growing pains |
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Alexander said: > "You are looking for solution that already exists" > "Please look in direction of FreeBSD projects > { as well as other *BSD )" > "So what do you say?"
I would just like to note that from now on, everybody who just says "Look at how they're doing it at *BSD, let's copy them", without in any way quentifying why this would be better or worth the time, is going to end up into my procmail-filters. No, I do not except this to be a great deterrent and except everybody to quit doing it in horror, but neither seems constantly complaining about this seem to be.
So once again, for rehearsal: Just because *BSD does it, doesn't mean it's the only way for Linux to go. Not in specific kernel issues, not in general software engineering practices. Anybody suggesting so is being silly, or on the wrong list. Linux is so different, that even if it works for *BSD, it may well not work for Linux - and everything *BSD does isn't automaically the best way to go even for *BSD. Besides, variety is one of the greatest strengths of open source.
That having been said, I nor I am sure nobody else has any problems with analyzing a problem in detail, coming up with a well reasoned solution, suggesting and implementing it. But just blindly copying anything that *BSD does is so obiviously broken that I wonder why people have to keep repeating it here. You'd think most people on this list don't think *BSD is God.
Case-in-point example: I can name numerous treatises refering to Linux as an example of succesful open source development project. Perhaps it's my limited viewpoint, but beyond a number of *BSD-zealots I've met foaming at the mouth in person, I've never seen anybody use *BSD's as example of effective open source development. Which, again, doesn't mean we don't have anything to learn from them, but that one should exercise criticism in copying them, and reason it by something else than "because *BSD does it".
-Donwulff
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