Comment A generic remark to the whole discussion (Score 1) 948
Great discussion going on! Some good remarks, some so-so.
Let me note one thing to everyone. This is mostly a reflection on History and how it can apply to what we have here.
Ancient Greeks had the knowledge of the steam machine. Yes, we can say that they played with it as a toy and so on... But the problem is that they had not only the steam machine! They had all the basics to build machines, besides they were pretty advanced on using them as we know now. Not so long ago a very complicated machine was found that amazingly modelled the solar system. They were toys, but pretty elaborated toys.
Now we perfectly know that steam machines came up into life only in the XVII century. More, all the machinery stuff was mostly reinvented! We didn't know Greeks went that far until recent time.
Why?
Some people say that they, and Romans afterward, stuck to their "way of things" - slaves do the work, why we shall do something serious out of these machines? Why we need to substitute them for something... Better? Or worser? Or just different?
Now, they kept their society. Where is that society now, we perfectly know.
Is no one afraid, that sticking into the "way of things", we will just build our own doom? Yes, I know that it is hard to see the Future and probably no one of us will see the Avenge of Linux. Most probably there will never be such an avenge but someone will reinvent Linux on its basics. But, sincerly, I would prefer that even the basis for such things will never come into life! Because, if this happens, that will mean that we have choosen the most stupid historical path - no-way street.
Now I leave two questions for everyone here -
On trying to make a wholescale standard on Linux, aren't we burning bridges?
What do you prefer - an imperfect world and a future of Chance, or a perfect system and one-way to nowhere?