Helge Hafting wrote:
> Al Boldi wrote:
> >Scalability is more, much more. It's about extendability and reusability
> >built on a solid foundation that may be stacked.
>
> Again: Code reuse is nice, or even necessary, with a limited and
> expensive workforce. It is not a concern with an unlimited free
> workforce though. If some volunteer makes an improvement by
> doing a big rewrite - well, the job gets done and nobody have to
> pay him. This works. And you can't
> get they guy to do something you find more useful "instead". Maintainers
> can refuse patches of course - this usually cause people to work less
> on linux rather than working more efficiently on linux. So even
> a "lot of work for only a little gain" type patch is taken, if it is
> technically sound. Because the time couldn't be better spent anyway,
> so it wasn't wasted.
>
> >Layers upon layers, the
> >sky is the limit. Stability is the key to unlock this scalability.
>
> I consider too many stacked layers inefficient. Keep it simple . . .
True. But they are necessary to reach higher grounds.
Think about it.
Thanks!
--
Al
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