> they've changed everything else in unix, why hold so tightly to the clearly > unhelpful ideas?
because it's a cult. things don't make sense in cults. i encountered the following quote the other day, which finally convinced me. you can't rationalize things with this sort of thinking: "It is out of question that git is becoming the standard tool to manage code. It is incredible how clever Linus was in inventing it." http://www.dev-articles.com/article/Git-and-Linus-431001 oh, and there's the whole 'user-level filesystems are bad, mmmkay?!' debacle: http://blog.gluster.com/2011/06/linus-torvalds-doesnt-understand-user-space-storage/ their ecosystem won't allow any synthetic filesystems past /sys anytime soon, nevermind the auth bit.
