The Cathedral and the Bazaar.

[Jecel Assumpcao Jr]

Hey, Fare'. If you think being lazy is bad for your projects, just
wait until you are old *and* lazy ;-)

But about the paper, the author made it clear that his comparisons
were valid for projects that were well defined even before they
were started: "let's make a better, but sort of compatible,
sendmail..."

And his comparison of Hurd and Linux reminds me of the trick
question: "In a race between a man, a horse and an automobile,
who would win?" The correct answer is "depends on how far they
will race". The man will actually lead for a meter or two and
the car will take somewhat longer than that to overtake the
horse.

Yes, Linux has won so far (and I am a great fan of Linux). Just
like Java is beating Smalltalk/Self to the ground for now. In
the long run, I'll bet on the one with the better base.

Neat things are being done to Linux by many separate groups all
over the world. Distributed computing, graphical environments,
real time stuff, even ports to the 8086! But these thing are
taking longer and longer to get incorporated into the "real"
Linux (you know, Slackware, Red Hat, Debian...). Hurd, while
a bit archaic by my standards, has a better base and will soon
start assimilating these advances much faster than Linux is.

Tunes is new and should aim to win in the long run. The problem
is that the man and the horse have already started while the
Tunes/Ferrari is still on the drawing board. BTW - did anything
ever happen with the Tunes and LispOS merger? I had to drop
out of the LispOS list as it was overflowing my mailbox.

-- Jecel