Re: [9fans] fun quote

[Jack Norton <jack@0x6a.com>]

erik quanstrom wrote:
> i don't know how ingo managed to put his
> finger on so many reasons i enjoy plan 9
> by counterexample.
>
> Linux is a 18+ years old kernel, there's not that
> many easy projects left in it anymore :-/ Core kernel
> features that look basic and which are not in Linux
> yet often turn out to be not that simple.
> 	-- Ingo Molnar
>
> - erik
>
>
Now, Plan 9's kernel is pretty old too, isn't it?  If Plan9 had become a
bit more widely accepted, even as late as, let's say, 2002, do you think
it would have become an unruly and frighteningly complicated beast as
linux has?
What has saved other 'popular' kernels from this?  For instance, no body
ever complains about FreeBSD being a complex cluster f***, but it has
pretty wide adoption (even as a 'desktop').  What about OS X?  Has
Apple's arrogance and secrecy saved it from....  open source
development?  It seems like they release code only after they are damn
sure they've gotten all they can out of it.
So, is Linux the unwanted poster-child of open source development?  I
think an argument could be made.

-Jack