Quothe Dave McGuire, from writings of Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 02:23:43PM -0400:
> Linux is a mess no matter how you slice it, mostly thrown together by
> script kiddies with no experience whatsoever...it's a bad idea to
> judge the entire UNIX world on the cleanliness (or lack thereof) of
> Linux, because as even the Linux people are fond of pointing out,
> Linux isn't UNIX.
Which is why I use FreeBSD and Solaris. There also appears to be a
certain Linux versus anything else attitude, including Linux vs. other
UNIX-like, and UNIX flavors. It wasn't too long ago when most people
who wrote free software for *NIX systems made an attempt to make it as
portable as possible, so that it could be compiled on most *NIX-like
platforms. Many of the Linux hackers, however, it appears, tend to
write their software for Linux, and only Linux, systems, ignoring the
fact that they wouldn't have their Linux software to play with if
other *NIX hackers hadn't written portable code. For example, the
Free Software Foundation from which Linux snatched most of it's
utility programs, etc.
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Received on Sun Apr 21 2002 - 14:11:58 BST