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[jacob]

What would be the point in reinventing a wheel that no-one would use?...

[jacob]

In this case there wasn't a "proper open standard" (NFS is a joke) and this helps ensuring that SMB is not a Microsoft lock-in....

[jacob]

Do you mean it would be better if Linux had substandard SMB support?...

[jacob]

So what is actually your point? That RedHat should not be allowed to develop free and open source software (in practice, develop proprietary instead)?...

[jacob]

I'm also puzzled by it and yes, the project looks very embryonic. But presumably they know where they want to go with this and the idea and vision has...

[jacob]

IIRC Linus' objection against C++ in the kernel was mainly about memory management and about the C++ programmers whom he considers hopeless. He said that...

[jacob]

If they are "poo" it's largely due to:

1. missing or poor quality hardware drivers (cough cough nVidia). This problem can be mitigated...

[jacob]

Someone who "loves" software in the same way he or she loves a person should probably go and see a psychiatrist. Software is utilitarian. It...

[jacob]

It's the Denning-Krueger Effect in action....

[jacob]

If "exploitation is a form of abuse" then each and every of those self-proclaimed experts who use Linux without contributing (in kind or financially)...

[jacob]

Rust didn't exist back then. Today Linus has his users to keep happy just like back then, and just like back then, he's being pragmatic, not ideological....

[jacob]

C++ struggled in the Linux kernel because Linus wanted no part of it. Rust is different in that regard....

[jacob]

It began when they changed leadership. And also when they realised the SCOgate was a dead horse and FOSS was there to stay, and they took the only intelligent...

[jacob]

Have you got a specific example of Microsoft abused Linux since they officially started loving it?...

[jacob]

Tiered caching is on ZFS advantage, however you will probably find that more large servers use btrfs than zfs. Not that it matters much, it means nothing...

[jacob]

As long as it's picking up the good features of windows, all the better....

[jacob]

Only light/dark....

[jacob]

He's just a notorious "real programmer" kiddie, incapable of understanding neither actual computer science nor software engineering require...

[jacob]

That ship has unfortunately sailed but on ARM-based platforms, Linaro or ARM itself should be the one who issues the keys...

[jacob]

The GNU C++ compiler in its current form was started by the Cygnus corporation. Modern SMP support for Linux including RCU was developed by IBM. X86-64...