On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 07:08:31PM +1000, Thomas Poole wrote: > Not only is effort wasted in the porting itself, but > in the long term maintenance and code bloat.
This is slightly false thinking -- that effort is "wasted" when
pursuing a goal which may not be currently in favor. Effort is only
a true waste if it would have otherwise been spent in another
direction. In the open-source world, one generally finds that the
coders work on what interests them. I doubt that many (if any!) of
the PPC porters would be interested in any of the problems we might
think would be more productive in the long term.
One might have argued that all the work done porting applications to
Solaris was wasted effort that might have been more productively
spent improving Linux. Fortunately for us, those coders didn't think
it was so.
As for code bloat, yes that might be a problem -- but code comes
and code goes, and it has always been so.
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