> Now look at that number: 40. Four decades. During that time there > has been any amount of foolish crud added to this or that kernel, > distribution ,graphics subsystem, standards, ... but instead of > fixing it after 4 0 years, we get notes explaining that it's the > application's business, in this case the shell, or perhaps the > underlying library, to try to address "security issues" instead of > fixing it, once for all. After 40 years (more than a generation).
+1. this is really an important point. think of all the mega person years you could save by doing the simple, systemic things to make the job of maintaining system easier. - erik
