Re: Linus is on a powertrip..

Eric S. Raymond (esr@thyrsus.com)
Thu, 1 Oct 1998 20:00:25 -0400


Peter Mutsaers <plm@xs4all.nl>:
> 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.

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		<a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr">Eric S. Raymond</a>

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