Messages in this thread | | | From | Al Boldi <> | Subject | Re: Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario | Date | Mon, 19 Dec 2005 18:19:53 +0300 |
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Helge Hafting wrote: > Al Boldi wrote: > >Scalability is more, much more. It's about extendability and reusability > >built on a solid foundation that may be stacked. > > Again: Code reuse is nice, or even necessary, with a limited and > expensive workforce. It is not a concern with an unlimited free > workforce though. If some volunteer makes an improvement by > doing a big rewrite - well, the job gets done and nobody have to > pay him. This works. And you can't > get they guy to do something you find more useful "instead". Maintainers > can refuse patches of course - this usually cause people to work less > on linux rather than working more efficiently on linux. So even > a "lot of work for only a little gain" type patch is taken, if it is > technically sound. Because the time couldn't be better spent anyway, > so it wasn't wasted. > > >Layers upon layers, the > >sky is the limit. Stability is the key to unlock this scalability. > > I consider too many stacked layers inefficient. Keep it simple . . .
True. But they are necessary to reach higher grounds.
Think about it.
Thanks!
-- Al
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