Re:The Sortix Operating System
by philh on Monday April 20, 2015 @11:33AM
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I'm not saying you're wrong, but it does feel to me like you're encouraging Jonas to defect in a negative-sum game. He can get more users by engaging his sales-self, but his engineering-self is treating his users more respectfully.
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Re:The Sortix Operating System
by moron4hire on Monday April 20, 2015 @12:08PM
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More respectfully than what? I don't think making your introduction clear and concise is "less respectful".
You say "It adds nothing to my description to call my projects incomplete", but "incomplete" isn't really what's at stake. I agree with you that software is basically never complete. But some software is "production-ready" in some sense that I consider meaningful. And I think that
> Sortix is a small self-hosting Unix-like operating system developed since 2011 aiming to be a clean and modern POSIX implementation.
makes it clear (or at least strongly hints) that Sortix is not production-ready, while
> Sortix is a clean and modern POSIX implementation.
pretends that Sortix is production-ready, and I consider that to be disrespectful.