On 2/1/22 17:47, hiro wrote:
I believe that David is right that it was a combination of running on
really low-end hardware (in the early days, Torvalds accepted patches for
just about anything), and a similarly low barrier to entry (others
elsewhere have quipped about having to appease, "the Gods of BSD" to get
anything into those systems) and the AT&T lawsuit, which was at best
misguided but scared people off of BSD.
I always explain it the following way to the non-techies:
You've heard of the appstore and how everybody wants to replicate
apple's "business model" behind it.
Well, it turns out they didn't come up with it.
The true inventor was Linus Torvalds.
Linux is an "appstore" for bad driver software. Maybe the first time
in human civilization where something so broken by design has become
the core underlying business plan and gained so much interest to
succeed at such scale and against all rationality.
Apple had it all easy after this proof of concept. They sold half-ripe
hardware, with nearly none of the potential exploited by software, and
relied on mostly unvetted third-party submissions to fix that in
"apps". Worked for GNU/LINUX, makes apple rich, too.
Hiro, you have absolutely hit the nail on the head.
So, how do you add rationality and reliability to the
dpkg-app/play-store idea?
Answer: emulate the ways this has been done for centuries in the
physical world.
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