Was this article written recently? There are hints throughout that it might be a few years old. Having said that, I think he generally makes good points. One

Was this article written recently? There are hints throughout that it might be a few years old. Having said that, I think he generally makes good points. One thing, though: I don't think his examples of bloated applications are indicative of a Unix problem. He tries to claim that these apps aren't reusing much code. But as far as I can tell, every application he lists is also ported to/from non-POSIX OSes (Netscape, Acrobat, Mathematica, Purify, FrameMaker, etc.). Reusing Unix parts wouldn't help them when they have to port to Windows, so yes, they probably do have all their own stuff.