Hi, IMHO the interview seemed a bit conceit(Hey don't flame me, I concede that Linus has every right to be conceit, I would be also if Microsoft ever fears me ;) As kishore rightly points out that one has to be aware of the compition and ready to learn from them. I think GNU Herd should learn somthing from OS X ;) as later had been one of the longest running project and former is still hasn't stabilised ;)
Still Linux has a long way to go, forget about the desktop, I am yearning to hear when will they enable the multithreaded kernel? Linus says he is satisfied with the kernel core and no less than 10 years he is going to change it. So seemed to me I have to wait for another 10 years.
Jai ho maiyan ki, Aditya N.
--- Kishor Bhagwat aaaaarrrgghhh@yahoo.com wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: Philip S Tellis philip@konark.ncst.ernet.in
My thoughts:
How often have we, as developers, built our tools
based on what the
competition does? How often have we measured our
systems against our
competitors and not as the tool itself? Linus'
philosophy is basically,
don't bother about what the others are doing, just
make your own stuff
better today than what it was yesterday. Most of
us started out with
that philosophy (at least I did), but somewhere
down the line the
marketroids got to us. Maybe it was done in
school and college, maybe
it was done at home. It's the whole concept of
getting measuring
success by money earned that tends to screw up
developers. This, is
possibly just one of the things that seperates
hackers from the rest.
I think its important to be aware and informed about what the competition does - just so that you can learn from it - they make some mistakes and do some things better than you - so why not learn 'em both? concentrating on just ur work, and "not caring" about what the competition is doing, is kinda myopic. Probably the point that Linus is trying to make is that the direction of the Linux kernel development is not _driven_ by market needs/competitor moves. That is not to say it is not _influenced_ by technologies developed by others.
my 2paise kishor PS: i've been incommunicado for the last ten days.Did the meet on 7th happen?
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