Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 11 Dec 2000 13:53:35 -0500 (EST) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux Kernel ORB: kORBit |
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On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Dietmar Kling wrote:
> I do not understand this > "i saw it - yuck! - and now i want to kill it "
s/want to kill it/do not want to touch it/
> point of view. > As I tried to point out. Things evolve. And > the evolution has the right do things wrong. > Next evolution step will do it probably better.
You do realize what "evolution" means? I'm not talking about the bugs in implementation. I'm talking about botched design. _That_ never gets fixed. Show me one example when that would happen and I might consider taking such possibility seriously.
> Al same as kernel development. With your attitude > i'd have dropped linux 0.99 immediatly. > Remember the code in certain parts?
And? It wasn't nearly that huge and what matters _much_ more it was not that tasteless.
> So what is your point? > I accept only shiny little masterpieces of software?
No. The larger it is - the harder it is to redesign. And both GNOME and KDE are _way_ past the size*severity_of_misdesign threshold. IOW, I simply don't believe that either project has sufficient manpower to fix their stuff. And that's orders of magnitude insufficient. As far as I can see they are also way past "it's easier to do from scratch than to fix" threshold. The same reason why I don't believe that NT will ever become decent OS, even if the full source would become available, yodda, yodda.
Feel free to prove me wrong, but I would be very surprised to see it. And yes, the fact that UNIX was conceptually simple and relatively small helped it _big_ way. Small beasts adapt and propagate. Huge ones tend to become dead-ends. So much for evolution...
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