On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 09:56:37PM -0700, Larry Price wrote: > On Mon, 17 Jun 2002, Jacob Meuser wrote: > > > >larry wrote: > > > Think of some the silly inefficient standards we have to put up with in > > > daily life; Imperial Measurement Units (feet, Lbs.) rather than > > > S.I. (metric), QWERTY rather than Dvorak keyboards. > > > > Well, IMO, this is evolution. Aren't those "rather than" standards > > actually more boring and basic than their "silly" counterparts? > > Well they are both the result of what evolutionary theorists talk about as > "frozen accidents" and arose out of a series of historical interactions > whereas the alternatives were both produced rationally with careful > thought given to consistency and efficiency.
I suggested why I thought my idea would improve consistency and efficiency. Do those suggestions not seem rational to you? > > GNU/Linux is what, over a decade old? GNU/Linux runs what percentage > > of all websites and mailservers , somewhere around 35, 40? I don't think > > standardization is premature at this point. > > But GNU/linux, unix, software in general in fact; is a byproduct of social > evolution, and thus can be expected to have the usual convolutions and > inefficiencies associated with any evolutionary process... I'm not proposing the be-all-end-all, not by any means. Merely a different (and not necessarily new, indeed, and already proven, IMO) way of looking at the starting point. -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
