On Tue, 28 Nov 2017, [email protected] wrote:
As dmr often pointed out (though perhaps not quite in the terms that I will use here), UNIX is about community.
Or about simplicity? UNIX as the opposite to MULTICS? And this is the impression I get when I read Ritchies and Thompson paper "The Unix Time-Sharing System". And even if it is not so simple, they were able to explain it so, that one gets this impression. This is by the way my experience on speches and lectures of best scientists. This is why I like much more the answer of Otto Moerbeek than the one of Theo, but it seems there was a background not known by everyone.
[...] as I appear to have quite different goals (and a very different mindset) from its principal contributors, despite my profound appreciation for the project's focus on security.
Well, there is not a lot of alternatives. You will have to create the system that follows your goals. Rodrigo.
