Trend mongering (Was Re: [Ilugc] which Linux distros are dying?)
- From: m.sujith@xxxxxxxxx (Sujith)
- Date: Thu Jul 3 18:27:32 2008
Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote:
This is the (IMHO) flawed philosphy of "Trend mongering" that leads
people/companies/programs to want to grab more and more.
What happened to the Unix philosphy of doing one thing and doing it
really well?
If the program is a web browser, it should be a web-browser and not
try to be a film-viewer, mail-reader, editor, programming interface
etc. etc.
I completely agree with the KISS principle, but there are a few cases
where thinking outside the box results in something that changes the way
software is written. Emacs for example. It might be a kitchen sink, but
when you get a complete desktop environment that fits within a few megabytes,
I am more than willing to accommodate it.
Sujith
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