I believe we have to discern between Unix as a concrete implementation (what is a process, where do certain files go, etc.) and the design philosophy. My remark

I believe we have to discern between Unix as a concrete implementation (what is a process, where do certain files go, etc.) and the design philosophy. My remark focused on the latter. I would very much like to see modernization in Unix as a technology. At the same time, I believe that Linux owes its success to the adherence to a number of Unix design philosophies. This has kept Linux flexible across a wide spectrum of use cases and prevented it from running into a dead end, becoming stale. Abandoning these foundations in order to optimize towards a very structured, hierarchical engineering ideal, will make Linux go more in the direction of BeOS or Windows. And I'm afraid that we don't have the resources that Microsoft uses to keep Windows competitive and backwards compatible.