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The Journal - a proposed syslog replacementThe Journal - a proposed syslog replacementPosted Nov 18, 2011 20:14 UTC (Fri) by raven667 (subscriber, #5198)In reply to: The Journal - a proposed syslog replacement by jmorris42 Parent article: The Journal - a proposed syslog replacement
We have allowed immigrants commit access to key parts of our cultural heritage...[snip] Really? We can't discuss ideas based on their technical merit because that would be offensive to our "UNIX cultural heritage"? Really?! That's the most asinine thing I have read all day.
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The Journal - a proposed syslog replacement Posted Nov 19, 2011 3:52 UTC (Sat) by wmf (guest, #33791) [Link]
I wouldn't use the word "heritage" because that sounds like a fallacious appeal to tradition, but Unix is definitely a culture and it can be useful to think in those terms. (Check out http://www.faqs.org/docs/artu/philosophychapter.html if you haven't already.)
There are now several projects that are using Linux but aren't really part of Unix culture (OLPC, Android, Ubuntu, to a lesser extent Fedora with all its Lennartisms). I think it's arrogant to assume that Unix has already gotten everything right so I support all this exploration, but perhaps it deserves a warning label like "Fedora's not Linux as you know it; Slackware is that way".
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