Martin Luther King was right. “I have a dream!”
On the other hand, there is also Reality.
Inspired by the inevitable Anonymous@LHB, April 2, 2011 9:03 PM.
I’d love to give you a direct link, but of course BloggerRunsOnLinux™.
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Can these idiots just stop banging on about pointless whiz-pop things like Gnome and Unity and just focus their attention on a more consistent platform so that third-party developers can deliver applications on Linux without bending over backwards?
Several reasons, of which these are but a few:
1. Nobody who is working on the low-level bits of Linux currently wants Linux to be a consistent platform. So making a consistent Linux would involve a mutually-incompatible fork of several projects at once, which would piss the creators off more than you can imagine, and of course the freetards would immediately yell and scream about it too, because “free as in speech” is something they want commercial companies to grant them, not something which they feel should apply to FOSS projects.
2. There’s no guarantee that ConsistentLinux would be compatible with any existing Linux code. So you might end up with something which has even less available software than Linux, impossible though that may seem.
3. Making a consistent OS — even a mediocre one — is hard work. There may be a recent example out there which didn’t involve a lot of people or a lot of time or both, but every OS produced by either Microsoft or Apple since 1982 has involved a lengthy runup and a lot of people working together, even with the advantage of a (comparatively) large library of existing OS code and fairly significant and recent experience. Trying to do this with your team made up of irresponsible freetards scattered around the world and working in their spare time might be totally impossible.
4. There is no guarantee that it would even be possible to turn the existing Linux kernel (and usual associated packages) into a consistent product without doing more work than it would take to simply build a new OS from scratch. (See the Haiku Project.)
5. Once you have a clean, consistent OS built from Linux, the very first thing freetards are going to do is fork it to make distros which break things because they’re used to the existing Linux kernel where it makes no difference anyway. And then they’ll complain because their incompatible ABI doesn’t work with yours.
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I added the whole message.
What the f**k is this rant even talking about?
What Adam is trying to say is that he is too damn stupid to read standard English, or express an opinion of his own in a rational manner.
Are you kidding, he’s an evangelist! The very definition of free thinking! First, you take someone else’s hard work, then indoctrinate yourself, and then do you best to glorify it.
Do you contribute anything useful? No.
Do you question the work so it doesn’t stagnate? Hell, no, that’s sacrilegious!
Do you regurgitate a bunch of talking points that similar “evangelists” have group-thought for you? Hell yes.
So you see, being an evangelist is all about thinking for yourself.
Consistent *ix has been a wanted item since the Unix virus was first unleashed on the computer world.
freebsd has stable api/abi
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