[TUHS] Version 256 of systemd boasts '42% less Unix philosophy' The Register

[David Arnold]

> On 19 Jun 2024, at 08:44, Greg A. Woods <woods at robohack.ca> wrote:
> 
> At Mon, 17 Jun 2024 17:44:40 -0600, Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:
> Subject: [TUHS] Re: Version 256 of systemd boasts '42% less Unix philosophy' The Register
>> 
>> ....  There was no upstream
>> anymore. Csrg was gone, and all successor BSD projects assumed they were
>> the new upstream.
> 
> Hmmm.... I never really thought of it that way before!
> 
> I guess I had hoped everyone would come to realize a new
> one-size-fits-all upstream would be a "good thing", or
> perhaps even a necessity, and that none would automatically
> slip into thinking they were it without first reaching some
> consensus with other projects

A somewhat similar thing has happened with Plan9.

There are multiple “successor” projects, some basically single-person projects, others semi-official with legal structure, others larger groups of like-minded developers.

The are high levels of acrimony between the groups, and no accepted processes for evolving together.

Periodically, some naive passerby will suggest a common core repository, perhaps even using a popular technology, and they’ll get barbecued in the resulting flamefest. 

So it goes. 



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