Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 19:53:02 +0200 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: "Andrew Atrens" <atrens@nortel.com> Cc: current@freebsd.org, Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net>, James Mansion <james@wgold.demon.co.uk>, small@freebsd.org, Olivier Gautherot <olivier@gautherot.net> Subject: Re: FreeBSD's embedded agenda Message-ID: <10407.1148665982@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 26 May 2006 13:50:19 EDT." <44773FDB.1090901@nortel.com>
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In message <44773FDB.1090901@nortel.com>, "Andrew Atrens" writes: >>>'Good enough means exactly what it says, and doing more is foolish' >> >> I think you seriously lack historical perspective if that is your >> considered opinion. > >I suppose it depends entirely on your objective. If your objective is >making money and you want to be first to the market with your toaster, >then you scale back features or quality or both in favour of schedule. My objective is to produce the best damn UNIX and keep it viable for at least another ten years. That means that I have to be at least three years ahead of the users and I have to make it robust, fast and innovative enough that they want to use it. For that "good enough" will not cut it. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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