The thing about defaults is that anyone can change them. It’s easy! Also Google pays $26,000,000,000 a year to make sure Google is the default search engine. B

The thing about defaults is that anyone can change them. It’s easy! Also Google pays $26,000,000,000 a year to make sure Google is the default search engine. Because defaults are so easy to change that nobody changes them. The Linux software community expects libraries to be written a certain way. It is a de facto platform configuration setting. Even if there are, per Linux tradition, a few flags.