Comment You ask why people keep reinventing the wheel? (Score 1) 70
Because there are too many distros and add-ons!
Linux is in danger of losing direction much as UNIX did 20 years ago! Everyone can and does write Yet Another Add-On:
"Yaooooooooooo! I'm going to be rich!"
And they do this before they learn what is already out there, identify the good and bad parts (PROPERLY), and document what makes their solution worth the effort.
Properly: It is amazing how many people are willing to "take a look at" something and consider themselves versed enough to criticize! Most of the time, they are just criticizing the default UI and the way it installs!
Without the discipline of identifying and documenting the ideas that make a product unique, we're all just pzzzing in the wind!
Without some form of Intellectual Property protection, there is no money to pay for the analysis that MUST proceed real progress. ....but never mind. Survival of the fittest means that eventally MOST of us (and most Linux add-ons) will ultimately starve and die off.
I foolishly dream of the world in which we can pursue our ideas without bloodlust and the ripping and gnashing of teeth!
Nah! It's so much more fun being so sure of ourselves and blaming our failures on everybody else. That's the way, right?
Linux is in danger of losing direction much as UNIX did 20 years ago! Everyone can and does write Yet Another Add-On:
"Yaooooooooooo! I'm going to be rich!"
And they do this before they learn what is already out there, identify the good and bad parts (PROPERLY), and document what makes their solution worth the effort.
Properly: It is amazing how many people are willing to "take a look at" something and consider themselves versed enough to criticize! Most of the time, they are just criticizing the default UI and the way it installs!
Without the discipline of identifying and documenting the ideas that make a product unique, we're all just pzzzing in the wind!
Without some form of Intellectual Property protection, there is no money to pay for the analysis that MUST proceed real progress.
I foolishly dream of the world in which we can pursue our ideas without bloodlust and the ripping and gnashing of teeth!
Nah! It's so much more fun being so sure of ourselves and blaming our failures on everybody else. That's the way, right?
