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>Or consider this. Unix grew by about 39 system calls in its first
>decade, but an average of 40
>per decade ever since. Is this accelerated growth more symptomatic of
>maturity or of cancer?
3rd option: competition. Linux competes against very modern and certainly '=
bloated' windows and macos operating system, defining what an OS today is, =
and we must be better (we are already 4 sure).