Hi all; I sent this message to the LKML last week, but I thought people in Apache might find it interesting as well.
-Keith ------------- Science doesn’t always proceed at the speed of thought. It often proceeds at sociological or even demographic speed. — John Tooby Open Letter to the LKML; If we were already talking to our computers, etc. as we should be, I wouldn’t feel a need to write this to you. Given current rates of adoption, Linux still seems a generation away from being the priceless piece of free software useful to every child and PhD. This army your kernel enables has millions of people, but they often lose to smaller proprietary armies, because they are working inefficiently. My mail one year ago (http://keithcu.com/wordpress/?p=272) listed the biggest workitems, but I realize now I should have focused on one. In a sentence, I have discovered that we need GC lingua franca(s). (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lingua%20franca) -------------- Rest here: http://keithcu.com/wordpress/?p=1691 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: community-unsubscr...@apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: community-h...@apache.org