Re:The SeL4 Microkernel: An Introduction [pdf]
by nine_k on Sunday March 23, 2025 @01:50PM
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Also an illustration how an open-source solution, even if technically inferior, would displace a closed-source solution, even if technically superior, unless there is a huge moat. And huge moats usually exist only in relatively narrow niches.
Re:The SeL4 Microkernel: An Introduction [pdf]
by vacuity on Sunday March 23, 2025 @02:03PM
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It turns out that success is composed of 90% luck, 10% marketing, and 5% talent/technical advantage. A rhetorical question: how do you entice people to turn a movement into a revolution when it isn't likely the movement will succeed?
“I remember running the QNX demo disc: an entire graphical operating system on a single 1.44MB floppy! Whatever happened to them?”
“They got bought by blackberry, which ended as you’d expect. QNX had a lot of success in automotive though.”
“Nowadays Linux and Android are dominant in new cars, though, proving once and for all that worse is better.”
exeunt. End Scene