erik quanstrom wrote:
Now, Plan 9's kernel is pretty old too, isn't it?
that's the point. age is a red herring.
What has saved other 'popular' kernels from this? For instance, no body
ever complains about FreeBSD being a complex cluster, but it has
pretty wide adoption (even as a 'desktop'). What about OS X? Has
Apple's arrogance and secrecy saved it from.... open source
development? It seems like they release code only after they are damn
sure they've gotten all they can out of it.
so you're saying that osx is not complicated?
- erik
No, no, it is, what I mean is that I haven't heard similar sentiments
towards the open source released by Apple. Apple's 'open source' is
software that is developed in a closed source fashion, then released as
open source when the time is right, as opposed to Linux and related
software, which are developed, almost from the ground up, as open
source. This is the impression I get anyway.
-Jack
