[TUHS] FreeBSD behind the times? (was: Favorite unix design principles?)

[Bakul Shah]

On Feb 4, 2021, at 2:28 PM, George Michaelson <ggm at algebras.org> wrote:
> 
> Basically Larry, I think you are kindof wrong. These alumni of yours
> did what all kids should do: they ran ahead. Did they scrape their
> knees doing it? Sure. But if they don't try things their teachers say
> are bad, how do they advance the art? If we'd listened to Eddy
> Dijkstra, we'd never have got BGP: He said it couldn't scale, even
> though it was based on his own work.

I think Larry is talking about ZFS *implementation* design choices;
which we, as ZFS users, mostly don't care about!

It was OSPF, not BGP, that used Dijkstra's SPF algorithm. The last
I knew BGP was all about "policy" -- why random bad actors can sling
half of the internet traffic through China or Vanuatu or whatever.