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From: paul.winalski@gmail.com (Paul Winalski)
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2018 10:18:18 -0400
Subject: [TUHS] daemons are not to be exorcised
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On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 10:31 PM, Theodore Y. Ts'o <tytso at mit.edu> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 10:40:44PM -0600, Grant Taylor via TUHS wrote:
> >
> > I think many people working on Linux are genuinely trying to make it better.
> > They just have no conceptual history to guide them.
>
> There are also ways in which Unix is just simply deficient.
>
I think a corollary of Albert Einstein's aphorism regarding theories
applies here: "Features should be as simple as possible, but no
simpler."

-Paul W.