On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:29:35 +0530 "Amarendra Godbole" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 12:40 AM, Aaron Glenn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 11:47 AM, Nuno Magalhces > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Here it's rtfm and chest-thumping. > > > > because here, many people have spent many hours making sure tfm gives > > you all the information you need > [...] > > Absolutely! I find the OpenBSD man pages to be dead accurate, and > to-the-point. Typos, and grammar are considered too! > > -Amarendra > This looks like about as good a place as any to stick my 3" worth in, tho' Nick Guenther also comes close to the mark with his comments about system "correctness". Linus is obviously worried about something of more than passing import, and I think that he's begun to realize that OBSD's "correctness" extends beyond code quality and technical security. Linux is a Utopian product that carries substantial ideological baggage rendering it's use problematic to business/commercial concerns _except_ by the largest of institutions. *BSD has a license structure that makes it commercially safe for use by small/medium business... OpenBSD being only the most consistent in this purpose with it's development of a genuine engineering culture and product. Utopian endevours all fall on their real intent to be all things to all people, which, because of the inherent logical relationships of things like consistency and completness, is a fruitless vanity. Such "Complete" systems require the deep hypocrisy of limiting "everything and everyone" in order to function at all. In political systems this is often evidenced by "difficult" people just "disappearing" in ones and twos and droves. Dhu (carry on in awareness!)
