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The case for the /usr mergeThe case for the /usr mergePosted Jan 27, 2012 19:31 UTC (Fri) by pr1268 (subscriber, #24648)Parent article: The case for the /usr merge
From the article: > Improved compatibility with other Unixes (in particular Solaris) in appearance: The primary commercial Unix implementation is nowadays Oracle Solaris. Solaris has already completed the same /usr merge in Solaris 11. Mulehockey! That smacks of merely wishing to copy Solaris. If the FreeDesktop devs wish to merge /usr then do so on technical merits, NOT because they want Linux to be "just like Solaris". Copying someone else sounds like what that OS company from Redmond has done for the past 28 years. I thought Linux was better than that.
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The case for the /usr merge Posted Jan 27, 2012 19:45 UTC (Fri) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]
Considering that Linux ( and hundreds of programs) itself is a reimplementation of Unix, you had no reason to believe that. Good ideas can be and should be copied from wherever possible including Solaris, Mac OS X and (gasp!) Windows. Open source thrives on it.
The case for the /usr merge Posted Jan 28, 2012 1:09 UTC (Sat) by leoc (subscriber, #39773) [Link] Open source thrives on it.So does closed source. Microsoft and Apple also copy ideas (and literally code too) from open source.
The case for the /usr merge Posted Jan 31, 2012 15:07 UTC (Tue) by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458) [Link] Mulehockey! That smacks of merely wishing to copy Solaris. If the FreeDesktop devs wish to merge /usr then do so on technical merits, NOT because they want Linux to be "just like Solaris". Have you looked at this reason only, or have you considered all the ones forwarded for this? AFAICS, it is mentioned more in the line of "It is also nice that...", not as the reason behind the move. Copying someone else sounds like what that OS company from Redmond has done for the past 28 years. I thought Linux was better than that. You give MSFT too little credit. They did invent/create some cool, new stuff (the idea of an interoperable office suite comes to mind) and are in a large measure responsible for the standardization (as it stands) of PC hardware. Sure, they made gargantuan blunders on the way too, and now can't for the life of them get rid of the fallout. That they didn't play nice with others isn't exactly their behaviour alone, BTW. Besides, the fabled GNU project was to be a drop-in replacement for Unix (even though RMS didn't like that system at all), so all Linux distributions are just "copying somebody else." Get over it, ideas worth copying will get copied; one just hopes not too much crap comes along for the ride.
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