On 09-Jul-2004 Chris Pickett wrote: } Chris Pickett wrote: } > RickTaylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: } >> I'm thinking more along the lines of a open source system with shareware } >> apps. } >>I think the system itself would go down the tubes if you started getting } >>internal competition, etc. } > } > } > I guess ... I guess I've stopped distinguishing between system and } > application. Is Mozilla part of the system? Or is it definitely an } > application? Do you define application by replaceable, non-essential } > part? What's essential? Is X essential? How about bash? Is the linux } > kernel even essential? Can't you run this software with a different } > kernel? I basically view everything as a set of interoperating programs } > -- including the music stuff -- although I might concede that the kernel } > is perhaps the only "true" system component. } } What I meant to say was, every piece is essential in a fluid, } well-functioning system, and there is no differentiation between them, } but if one insists on drawing a line somewhere then it's between kernel } space and userland. Including music stuff :) In other words Photoshop is essential to a graphics system? ---------------------------------- E-Mail: RickTaylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: 09-Jul-2004 Time: 15:29:52 This message was sent by XFMail ----------------------------------
