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Porting Open Source to Minor Platforms is Harmful

Posted by samzenpus on from the do-one-thing-at-a-time dept.

Tamerlan writes "Ulrich Drepper posted a blog entry titled "Dictatorship of Minorities". He argues that open source projects' attempts to support non-mainstream (read "non-Linux") operating systems slow down development and testing. While Ulrich may be biased (he is a RedHat employee) he has the point: if you ever read mailing list of any large open source project, you know that significant piece of traffic is about platform-specific bugs or a new release broken on some exotic platform."

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  1. Let's extrapolate, shall we? by chriswaclawik · · Score: -1, Redundant
    If we take this to its logical conclusion, porting for ANY platform takes longer than not creating any software at all. So let's just give up now.

    Zing. I am UNSTOPPABLE.

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