19 Jun
2024
19 Jun
'24
4:44 a.m.
At Mon, 17 Jun 2024 17:44:40 -0600, Warner Losh <imp(a)bsdimp.com> wrote:
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Version 256 of systemd boasts '42% less Unix philosophy' The
Register
.... There was no upstream
anymore. Csrg was gone, and all successor BSD projects assumed they were
the new upstream.
Hmmm.... I never really thought of it that way before!
I guess I had hoped everyone would come to realize a new
one-size-fits-all upstream would be a "good thing", or
perhaps even a necessity, and that none would automatically
slip into thinking they were it without first reaching some
consensus with other projects -- at least between NetBSD
and FreeBSD for starters (and I suppose all hope of this had
long evaporated before any of the other off-shoots formed).
The NIH stuff sunk adopting jails, geom, smp, etc from
FreeBSD and almost
sunk make from unifying some years ago. Too much ego and wanting perfect
code so all that other code is junk... It's a hard problem because
continuing engineering is actually hard and boring work nobody wants to do
as their fun hobby... not least because it requires a lot of time to keep
up and the skills of a diplomat, which previous few people have.. plus a
perception that mere merging never advances the state of the art...
Indeed!
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