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Linux For Losers According To De Raadt

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the fair-and-balanced dept.

elohim writes "Theo has some scathing comments about Linux in his new interview with Forbes Magazine. From the article: 'It's terrible...Everyone is using it, and they don't realize how bad it is. And the Linux people will just stick with it and add to it rather than stepping back and saying, "This is garbage and we should fix it."'"

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  1. Re:"Scathing" != "Untrue" by dtfinch · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Great first post.

  2. I've just got one thing to say by narooze · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Theo is teh ghey! L12nux r00lzzzzzz!!! :P

  3. BSDs=good stuff, De Raadt=nuts, it's the license by walterbyrd · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I use linux, but I have the upmost respect for the BSDs.

    I think the difference in popularity mainly comes down to the license. As I understand it: stuff you contribute to BSDs can be pirated by msft, and others, and put into their binary code. Whereas, the GPL offers a little more protection.

  4. This is just stupid by Kjella · · Score: 1, Redundant

    (...) Simon Lok, who holds a doctorate in computer science, took a close look at the Linux source code.

    "You know what I found? Right in the kernel, in the heart of the operating system, I found a developer's comment that said, 'Does this belong here?' "Lok says. "What kind of confidence does that inspire? Right then I knew it was time to switch."

    Without context, that seems just stupid. I've got comments like that in my code, it basicly means "I do this here, but is this really my (i.e. this source code's) job?" It might work 100%, but it will come up in a structural review.

    Anyway, what it boils down to: Linux tries to be a huge, complex general purpose kernel. There's a penalty for that. OpenBSD have their core team, and since it is much more transparent, they get to coordinate better. It's easier to coordinate 60 people than 1000s.

    The rest is just hilarious flamebait. IBM is using Linux hackers as free workers? Coming from the guy who lets everyone create closed-source embrace and extend derivates? That's not a pot calling the kettle black, that's a pot calling a slightly gray could black.

    Kjella

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  5. Linux/Apache/1.3.26 The joke is on you Dan by kermyt · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Netcaft Confirms it! The server that served up those vitriolic words is apache running on linux boxen.