[OT] college

[rikki cattermole]

On 03/09/2018 7:05 PM, Joakim wrote:
> One of the root causes of that dysfunction is there's way too much 
> software written. Open source has actually helped alleviate this, 
> because instead of every embedded or server developer who needs an OS 
> kernel convincing management that they should write their own, they now 
> have a hard time justifying it when a free, OSS kernel like linux is out 
> there, which is why so many of those places use linux now. Of course, 
> you'd often like to modify the kernel and linux may not be stripped down 
> or modular enough for some, but there's always other OSS kernels like 
> Minix or Contiki for them.

Yes but 30 years ago it was actually realistic and even best practice to 
write your own OS as part of deployment of e.g. game. Can't say that now 
even in the micro controller space.