[Info-vax] RMS intro

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

On Tue, 2 Jan 2024 20:56:56 -0000 (UTC), Dan Cross wrote:

> In article <un1s48$2r0sq$1 at dont-email.me>,
> Lawrence D'Oliveiro  <ldo at nz.invalid> wrote:
>
>>On Tue, 2 Jan 2024 19:41:21 -0000 (UTC), Dan Cross wrote:
>>
>>> Furthermore, the rate of change in Linux is high; following along from
>>> outside is fraught.
>>
>>Strange, isn't it: Microsoft must have access to at least a couple of
>>orders of magnitude greater development resources than that available to
>>the Linux kernel project,
> 
> Almost certainly the inverse is true.

Yet you yourself have already admitted the opposite.

> Don't sell Microsoft short: their kernel engineers are first-rate and
> incredibly sharp.

Maybe not quite so sharp; else why can’t they figure out how to get 
select(2)/poll(2) working with pipes <https://docs.python.org/3/library/
select.html>? That is the one irritating reason why users of Python 
asyncio on Windows have to make a choice between two different, partially-
overlapping event-loop implementations, neither of which is really a 
general solution <https://docs.python.org/3/library/asyncio-
eventloop.html#event-loop-implementations>.

> On the other hand, don't look at Linux with rose-colored glasses.  The
> idea of the lone Linux kernel hacker independently building something
> that rivals commercial vendors with nothing more than a bag of dorittos
> and bottle of Jolt is a distant memory.

It still happens. Look at who created WireGuard, just for a recent 
example.