Though I agree that legacy should not be pejorative, BIND is a rather difficult example to defend. This is considering its ideal antithesis (djbdns) exists, whi

Though I agree that legacy should not be pejorative, BIND is a rather difficult example to defend. This is considering its ideal antithesis (djbdns) exists, which is a point in favor of the original article being criticized here. The author's presentation of FOSS being a system that selects for what brings the most user value isn't exactly true. What becomes popular tends to be stochastic, and more often than not it's something people are conceptually content with. That is to say, programmers don't know what they want, they want what they know. Yes, complex software is a reality. The problem is we're generally quite bad at managing it, and end up complicating things. Complexity is intrinsic up to a point, but complication is the gratuitous complexity caused by improper or leaky abstraction.