On Thu, 17 May 2007, Ian Murdock wrote:
No, I'm simply pointing out that, like most things, there's a spectrum here, where "we can't change anything" is on one end and "we can change everything" is on the other end. Solaris is closer to the former, and Linux is closer to the latter.
While I don't completely agree with your analogy, I agree that we have different colors of the spectrum for these products, and yes, Linux is more of the shade that says we can change everything. The problem is they break things in doing so, so there seems we need some balance...
Solaris stands on the fact that it doesn't break things moving forward, Linux almost thrives on it.
Maybe it's the way the bazaare works, opposed to the cathedral? The bazaare says "we can do that, let's change it", but the cathedral says, we can't change that because [blah-blah] (insert one of various reasons here).
-- Alan DuBoff - Solaris x86 IHV/OEM Group _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
