> I still remember my disappointment in 1995 when I got an Aix station
> and noticed that in many areas its software was inferior to Linux's.
It's true that many of the other Unixes were and still are inferior to
Linux, but having used them in production situations they were often
more than sufficient. I'd even go as far as to say a lot of the stuff
that was "fixed" didn't need to be fixed (not that it hurts I guess).
I'm not pointing this at anyone in particular but, there's a sort of
arrogance in the open source community that I sometimes find a little
frustrating. It's this sort of feeling that everyone else can't produce
code or an OS worth anything. When this is kept humerous it's fine (hey,
I pick on Macs and Windows too) but then it often rises to an almost
xenophobic level. The people who wrote AT+T, BSD, AIX, SunOS, Solaris,
Ultrix, MacOS, (um, I'm torn about Windows), etc. etc. weren't and
aren't dolts and I think it's a little presumptive to think that
anything that was written by them can be done better by open source.
Yes, Linux has some very nice features and improvements, but believe me
there are plenty of shortcomings and things the "competitors" do better.
Linux and GNU ultimately owe just about everything to the Kernigans &
Ritchies of the world regardless of how much they do it better and there
is a lot of reinventing the wheel going on here. Fine, make it better -
I hate AIX too, but remember there were and are a lot of smart people
working on these OSes who aren't our enemies and who have indirectly or
directly contributed a lot to what we call Linux.
- Matt
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