18 Nov
2018
18 Nov
'18
1:42 a.m.
Kurt H Maier <khm(a)sciops.net> wrote:
On Sat, Nov 17, 2018 at 11:14:53AM -0700,
arnold(a)skeeve.com wrote:
Is this true of the user land as well? Maybe gcc, gdb and glibc, but most
of the day-to-day standard Unix commands are volunteer-maintained.
The man page authors / tech writers at Sun were paid to write man
pages, and learned / were taught how to do it well. The Linux stuff is
done by volunteers. You're comparing apples and oranges.
How do we kill this meme? Linux is open to contribution by volunteers
but the overwhelming majority of the work done on the OS for *at least*
the last ten years has been by professionals who are paid to work on
Linux. I'm not sure why the OS that powers pacemakers
and self-driving car
research gets to be held to a lower standard.
A valid point.