I think using the word 'philosophy' is like antimarketing. People have a kneejerk reaction to the word as something unchanging and stuck in the past and it lend

I think using the word 'philosophy' is like antimarketing. People have a kneejerk reaction to the word as something unchanging and stuck in the past and it lends itself easily to negative connotations. Take an example. Build small components that can be reused. Its like SOA way before SOA came into use and makes perfect sense. Now criticizing that is much more difficult and will require technical depth than just dimissive comments about 'unix philosophy'. In this case this is the first I've heard of a 'philosophy' of silence and it is often not golden. From a technical perspective its important for users to get feedback and not generic unhelpful error messages or commands disappearing. Fortunately on Linux logging is usually quite good and most experienced users can pinpoint errors quite quickly but options like -v, --v, -vv, -vvv far from helping often increase technical load.