Linked by Emmanuel Marty on Thu 2nd Sep 2004 07:36 UTC
As a programmer and manager of embedded software products for a living, I think that operating system programming is so much fun that it will eventually be outlawed. I've previously published two articles on OSNews, So, you want to write
an operating system and Climbing
the kernel mountain, and tried to summarize my experience in designing operating system kernels as well as technical traps that can be easily avoided.
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I wish Linus Torvald had read that article, than there wouldn't be some much fuss about Linux these days. Sorry couldn't help it.
Why does everything in the world needs to be efficient, if someone likes to write kernels for fun, so what! A lot of inventions are made by people who were considered wasting their time, history proves that most critics where wrong in the end.
If you tie everything to an economy model, sure it will be considered inefficient but that's the problem in general of society nowadays only profit counts.
Good ideas die because of economical reasons and that's a pitty. I don't wanna bring up the Betamax vs VHS discussion here but facts prove that free market models not always favor the technical most advanced technology.
Only when a technology is being developped by someone not under pressure to generate profit will flourish.
Point is that if someone wants to write his/her own kernel and has fun doing so, he/she should do so and not think about economical impact. If Linus had done so we wouldn't have Linux now.