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Every tool I use is someone else's product, and I'm glad they love it. In fact, I demand that they love it. For me, that's what separated Unix from Mac OS and
by dkarl 15y ago
Every tool I use is someone else's product, and I'm glad they love it. In fact, I demand that they love it. For me, that's what separated Unix from Mac OS and Windows when I was first exposed to it over a decade ago. Unlike in those other two operating systems, here wasn't a separation between the ugly, dirty parts no one was supposed to love and the beautiful parts that "mattered." In Unix, and now in Linux, I might just use the filesystem to store my source code files -- it's just a tool for me -- but there's somebody who loves the filesystem and makes it as beautiful for me as they know how.