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> There is yet another example of "Worse is Better" in how Linux had PCMCIA support several years before FreeBSD/NetBSD. However, if you ejected a PCMCiA card
by simula67 9y ago
> There is yet another example of "Worse is Better" in how Linux
had PCMCIA support several years before FreeBSD/NetBSD. However, if
you ejected a PCMCiA card in a Linux system, there was a chance (in
practice it worked out to be about in 1 in 5 times for a WiFI card, in
my experience) that the system would crash. The *BSD's took a good
2-3 years longer to get PCMCIA support, but when they did, it was rock
solid. Of course, if you are a laptop user, and are happy to keep
your 802.11 PCMCIA card permanently installed, guess which OS you were
likely to prefer --- "sloppy but works, mostly", or "it'll get there
eventually, and will be rock solid when it does, but zip, nada, right now"?
Time to market matters. Probably explains how codebases with low reputed quality still seems to win in the real world : MySQL vs Postgres ? MongoDB vs RethinkDB ?