On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 08:15:01PM +0200, Didier Kryn wrote:

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>

>     I think a new generation of programmers has been comitted to
> maintain and evolve
> Linux. They have strong technical skills but haven't been taught
> well enough - or not at
> all - the philosohy of UNIX. They have fun with Linux; they love
> writing daemons and
> using the IPC toolbox and they happily write daemons to replace the
> security features
> provided by good old file-permissions. They just don't realize the
> damage they are
> causing. They are professionals and they don't care the DIY guy who
> isn't as skilled as
> them.

>

Or...we are just blind cavemen, trying do keep alive a zombie that
lives only in our memories and has evolved into something else, while
we were busy flaming about the last flavours of Ubuntu?

I just think it's not a matter of skill (unix has never ever been just
a matter of skill), but rather a problem of bad attitude towards other
peers, their work and their contributions. And good attitude towards
peers is what has allowed the community around Linux to come along in
these years. Without good attitude, what was once a community will
slowly -but inexorably- become just a chit-chatty crowd, in which
speaking louder than your peers would be far more important than
having anything interesting to say at all.

Well, I'd better stop here, and avoid the usual boring "auntie's
rant"...

HND

KatolaZ

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