Re:FreeBSD: the next 10 years
by digi_owl on Saturday November 22, 2014 @11:35AM
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Funny how LWN.net seems to be the one place where he is willing to stick his neck into discussions he don't control.
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Portability is clearly important to him in the sense that it's brought up as a reason for him not have this or that feature in his software.
And he clearly has a point; at its worst it is a giant ball of YAGNI.
Do you think that Thompson and Ritchie gave a !%^$@ about Multics compatibility? Or OS/360?