Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on April 27, 2007 01:19 AM
It's funny that he criticized Linux as being based on technologie from the 70s. After all, Ethernet, arguably the most popular physical/link layer network technology in use today, is almost that old itself.
Linux and Ethernet are both case of worst-is-best. They are both crufty and retrofitted for task they where not designed for. But, hey, they are so flexible and ubiquitous that we may as well just use them instead of re-inventing the wheel.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on April 27, 2007 01:19 AMLinux and Ethernet are both case of worst-is-best. They are both crufty and retrofitted for task they where not designed for. But, hey, they are so flexible and ubiquitous that we may as well just use them instead of re-inventing the wheel.
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