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Virtual Decentralized Networks: Linux's Organization

Posted by michael on from the xchat-and-pine dept.

barries writes: "Here is an interesting take on the Linux Project which tries to put it in a historical perspective and explain why traditional structures and theory don't fully apply to it. It overlooks a few things but gets most of the basics right." You might want to skip ahead a bit in the paper to get to the Linux-specific sections.

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  1. Where have we heard this before? by cperciva · · Score: 4, Funny

    I don't know about everyone else here, but personally after 2000 I've been a bit skeptical of claims that something "is breaking new ground and traditional structures and theory don't fully apply to it."

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  2. Re:Fundamental flaw of the paper by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I could have wrote a better paper than this, no doubts.

    And with much gooder grammar too!!

  3. Re:GNU/Linux by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Yeah, my Debian box distracts me like that every time I log in! That's one of the most annoying things about Linux -- they put these tags in here praising themselves (it's not like they DESERVE it or anything), and you can't even change them!

    user@localhost:$ EDIT /ETC/ISSUE
    bash: EDIT: command not found

    See, if you try to change it, they think you're _bashing_ them, and don't let you run the editor! The nerve!

    Those commie nazis will be the end of freedom as we know it!