Some reactions w/o particular knowledge On Thu, July 24, 2008 9:55 am, Todd Walton wrote: > 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
maybe some but who cares > 2) [are] still reacting to SCO by pretending that Linux isn't Unix and > they're a copy-nothing shop is this not true? I thought stealing ideas (POSIX) was legal as long aas the code was your own > 3) don't have IBM's cheerful certainty that the customer won't know > where the ideas came from see 2 > 4) didn't invent it a little simplistic. Name something the Linux community "invented" > 5) all of the above analyzing the psyches of people you don't know is like holding up a mirror. -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
