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The monoculture of meritocracyThe monoculture of meritocracyPosted Nov 14, 2012 11:12 UTC (Wed) by el_presidente (subscriber, #87621)In reply to: The monoculture of meritocracy by josh Parent article: Crowding out OpenBSD
> The former simply doesn't apply to Linux: you have an almost excessive number of alternatives even for core OS components
Nobody needs a separate /usr partition, udev without systemd is a dead end, pulseaudio is the future, sloppy focus is for people caught up in the 90s, those who complain about client side decorations don't know what they are talking about, most users don't write their own init scripts, fallback mode is a maintenance burden, the unix philosophy doesn't apply to the modern desktop.
It's pointless to have alternatives.
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The monoculture of meritocracy Posted Nov 14, 2012 15:30 UTC (Wed) by ortalo (subscriber, #4654) [Link]
Admittedly, that's an alternative path to world domination, and it does not necessitate any alliance at all (these political discussions are so boring for el_presidente).
But it has already been done as nobody needs something else than M$/Windows.
The monoculture of meritocracy Posted Nov 14, 2012 21:35 UTC (Wed) by ThinkRob (subscriber, #64513) [Link]
That's either an excellent troll or -- if coming from a developer -- a deeply depressing expression of a rather dangerous mindset.
The monoculture of meritocracy Posted Nov 15, 2012 15:29 UTC (Thu) by lacos (subscriber, #70616) [Link]
> That's either an excellent troll or -- if coming from a developer -- a deeply depressing expression of a rather dangerous mindset.
Hm, neither. el_presidente didn't quote everything he responded to.
josh said:
> lack of alternatives when something doesn't work as desired [...] simply doesn't apply to Linux: you have an almost excessive number of alternatives even for core OS components
to which el_presidente replied,
> Nobody needs a separate /usr partition, udev without systemd is a dead end, pulseaudio is the future, sloppy focus is for people caught up in the 90s, those who complain about client side decorations don't know what they are talking about, most users don't write their own init scripts, fallback mode is a maintenance burden, the unix philosophy doesn't apply to the modern desktop.
It is sarcasm, but not a troll. It argues that alternatives are important, and that their number isn't actually "excessive" in Linux.
That's my take, anyway.
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