DTrace and the Linux bunker mentality
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Murphy/?p=1198

One of the happening stories these days is that, "Linux developers are
narrow-minded/socially-inept/etc.".  There's a lot of psychologizing
going on among the blogging-set.  Yadda yadda yadda.

I read this article because it said "DTrace", and what I got was the
psychologizing.  What do you guys think of this?  The blogger says,
"Why aren't the Linux people porting DTrace?".  I thought the reason
was licensing issues.  Legal incompatibility.  He didn't say anything
about that, but rather suggested that kernel developers:

1) see Sun as the enemy
2) [are] still reacting to SCO by pretending that Linux isn't Unix and
they're a copy-nothing shop
3) don't have IBM's cheerful certainty that the customer won't know
where the ideas came from
4) didn't invent it
5) all of the above

And I suspect that "industry standard" is a little strong when
describing DTrace.  But what do I know?

-todd


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