On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 4:41 PM, Igor Sobrado <igor.sobr...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 4:12 PM, Ross Cameron <abal...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Uhm perhaps to provide a better OSPF and BGP implementation to the for an
> OS
> > that is the OS of choice of millions of users and thousands of
> corporations?
>
> users and corporations should learn how to choose the operating
> systems that best fit their needs instead of choosing the "coolest
> operating system of the day" and adapt it to match their real needs.
>
> requirements come first, then you can choose the best tools to get
> that work done, not the reverse. why is it so difficult to
> understand?
>
More often than not there are more reasons than the purely technical
motivations for different tools/technologies being used.
Either way this is becoming an off topic OS flame war, personally I see a
portability layer for OpenBGP (as with the portability layer for OpenSSH) as
being a good thing.
It doesn't taint the OpenBSD sources and those that have a need to use
it on X platform can.
--
"Opportunity is most often missed by people because it is dressed in
overalls and looks like work."
Thomas Alva Edison
Inventor of 1093 patents, including:
The light bulb, phonogram and motion pictures.
