What is sad is that sometimes, when our gurus age or get older, the shine on their accomplishments grows dull with their new, wrong headed ideas.
Look at Bobby Fischer's anti-semitism, or Einstein's belief in the solid state universe, etc.
Someday Linus will be 50 or 60 and he'll say that the hot new idea is a piece of crap.
It seems to me that people are first anonymous, then we find out about them from some great accomplishment(s), and then they become yesterday's news when the environment that created them changes.
If his comments about Linux being worse as a firewall than Windows are actually attributable to him, then it is obvious, at least on this topic, he is walking, breathing anachronism.
First of all, Linux was supposed to be "Linus", it's amazing the difference a character can make. I was trying to imply that if he were to "endorse" one over the other, it would have the desired effect of getting everyone on the same code base.
Secondly, it's almost uncanny how you are saying what I was attempting to say.
I was trying to advocate the end to splintering, which could be obtained by one or the other dying, or one OE or the other just joining the other one.
Bottom line, the linux community is delusional if it thinks that it can continue it's phenomenal growth without a unified GUI development environment. It is sad that Windows (closed) can leverage a good OE vs. Linux(open) and make it look like closed is better.
Why can't we settle on a GUI, and corresponding development environment?
I wish Linux would endorse KDE or gnome, thus (de facto) killing off one or the other.
An Operating System needs a consistent GUI, sure it could be cusomizable out the waz, but we need to settle on some Libaries to link to, so we can start developing the kinds of apps that joe user uses.
I hate looking at a Linux desktop with 900 different looks and feels.
Blech! Let's settle on one and go about making it best of class.
First, when Von Daniken (ancient aliens visited us and gave us tech) was big in the 70's and the great hyper-rationalist Carl Sagan refused to summarily dismiss his outlandish claims, instead insisting on meticulously refuting his arguments one by one.
It also reminds me of the incredible flak that the "discover" of the link 'tween Helicobacter pylori and ulcers recieved. The man was a total pariah, and it's a shame I can't think of his name right now, because millions of people can now eliminate their ulcers entirely.
Just 10 years ago, the medical establishment was giving this guy grief and telling people like my dad to "get less stress" and "drink milk". The Barbarians! Who knows what therapies we now rely on (radiation, chemo, marrow transplants) will seem medieval in only a few short years.
Maybe this guy has noticed an effect that the establishment will more precisely explain, and some good will come of his work.
(Unfortunately, what this guy is claiming is a little too extraordinary.)
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Look at Bobby Fischer's anti-semitism, or Einstein's belief in the solid state universe, etc.
Someday Linus will be 50 or 60 and he'll say that the hot new idea is a piece of crap.
It seems to me that people are first anonymous, then we find out about them from some great accomplishment(s), and then they become yesterday's news when the environment that created them changes.
If his comments about Linux being worse as a firewall than Windows are actually attributable to him, then it is obvious, at least on this topic, he is walking, breathing anachronism.
Secondly, it's almost uncanny how you are saying what I was attempting to say.
I was trying to advocate the end to splintering, which could be obtained by one or the other dying, or one OE or the other just joining the other one.
Bottom line, the linux community is delusional if it thinks that it can continue it's phenomenal growth without a unified GUI development environment. It is sad that Windows (closed) can leverage a good OE vs. Linux(open) and make it look like closed is better.
I wish Linux would endorse KDE or gnome, thus (de facto) killing off one or the other.
An Operating System needs a consistent GUI, sure it could be cusomizable out the waz, but we need to settle on some Libaries to link to, so we can start developing the kinds of apps that joe user uses.
I hate looking at a Linux desktop with 900 different looks and feels.
Blech! Let's settle on one and go about making it best of class.
This story reminds me of two things:
First, when Von Daniken (ancient aliens visited us and gave us tech) was big in the 70's and the great hyper-rationalist Carl Sagan refused to summarily dismiss his outlandish claims, instead insisting on meticulously refuting his arguments one by one.
It also reminds me of the incredible flak that the "discover" of the link 'tween Helicobacter pylori and ulcers recieved. The man was a total pariah, and it's a shame I can't think of his name right now, because millions of people can now eliminate their ulcers entirely.
Just 10 years ago, the medical establishment was giving this guy grief and telling people like my dad to "get less stress" and "drink milk". The Barbarians! Who knows what therapies we now rely on (radiation, chemo, marrow transplants) will seem medieval in only a few short years.
Maybe this guy has noticed an effect that the establishment will more precisely explain, and some good will come of his work.
(Unfortunately, what this guy is claiming is a little too extraordinary.)
The Bottom Line is that the art-sies have been using the name since 1968.
I mean, it's not like we're talking 1998 vs 1997, or something, this is a thirty year old magazine.