Someone please add [2008] to the title. I was excited when I saw this and thought maybe Eric was updating it. In general of course this is a great book to rea

Someone please add [2008] to the title. I was excited when I saw this and thought maybe Eric was updating it. In general of course this is a great book to read, I have a hard copy (gasp) on my shelf and when it came out I had been working on Unix systems for 20 years. There are lots of good nuggets in there. It is a good read for people who would like to better understand the philosophy of Unix. That said if I recall correctly it was a bit cult like in nature and like most things should be taken with a grain of salt. Remember the historical context of when the book was written, it was very much a war like time when many Unix heads where certain we could "win" the OS wars. Much like the "Drug Wars" now I think a bit of reality has set in and we realize things are not always that black and white. It would be awesome to see a body of work like this updated with today’s evolution of the Unix philosophy. When I look back I think I’m so lucky to be in technology today, what used to take me months and years I can do today in days and weeks. We have so much foundation now, technology is more about Legos™ versus bags of Concrete. When I started in technology almost everything had to be built from scratch, often starting with little more then a simple computer language, some cpu, ram and maybe a disk if you where lucky. That made things so incredibly hard when you wanted to do anything of real value. Today it would be impossible to design the chips we use without the chips we built last generation and the software that leverages that power to help the people design the next generation of chips. We live in a world that builds on top of many generations of technology and the amplification effect is amazing to see first hand. Great book, read it, enjoy it and then read Eric’s other book (of many): The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary