From: Al Boldi <a1426z@gawab.com>
To: Helge Hafting <helge.hafting@aitel.hist.no>
Subject: Re: Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 18:19:53 +0300
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Helge Hafting wrote:
> Al Boldi wrote:
> >Scalability is more, much more.  It's about extendability and reusability
> >built on a solid foundation that may be stacked.
>
> Again: Code reuse is nice, or even necessary, with a limited and
> expensive workforce.  It is not a concern with an unlimited free
> workforce though.  If some volunteer makes an improvement by
> doing a big rewrite - well, the job gets done and nobody have to
> pay him.  This works.  And you can't
> get they guy to do something you find more useful "instead".  Maintainers
> can refuse patches of course - this usually cause people to work less
> on linux rather than working more efficiently on linux.  So even
> a "lot of work for only a little gain" type patch is taken, if it is
> technically sound.  Because the time couldn't be better spent anyway,
> so it wasn't wasted.
>
> >Layers upon layers, the
> >sky is the limit.  Stability is the key to unlock this scalability.
>
> I consider too many stacked layers inefficient.  Keep it simple . . .

True.  But they are necessary to reach higher grounds.

Think about it.

Thanks!

--
Al

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