Re: [9fans] design issues in operating systems

[Ozan Yigit <oz@blue.cs.yorku.ca>]

josh d <blah@microsoft.com> writes: [re: linus commentary on design]

>   Considering the popularity of Linux vs the popularity of Plan9, he may
> have a point.  Think about the issues and don't automatically descriminate
> because he said something you dislike.

i for one classify what linus says about design in the same category
of the "cathedral and the bazaar" proclamations. this is shallow stuff
that happens to have the right sound-bite quotient; ideal for the masses
that want quick, cheap bits of wisdom. i wish someone would do to this
what perlman does to network protocol design.

or perhaps i misunderstand all of it: there may be a taoist
undercurrent here:

	the design (tao) had best be left at rest.
	like little birdies at their nest.

so linus did not "design" linux, but it is emergent.

it makes my head spin.

oz
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