On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 6:33 PM, Anton Aylward <opensuse@antonaylward.com> wrote:
There are places we do need 'professionalism' of the kind he addresses. I want the flight control software of the planes I travel in, the software controls of my car, the banking and financial transaction software that runs our lives, various governmental software to be safe and secure, for various values and interpretations of those two words. Evidence is that they are not, and much of the 'not' has nothing to do with FOSS, any gap between Fedora and Suse, between Redhat and Novell kind of config options about the GUI that we are talking about in this thread.
We do get a lot of interoperability between distros as a result of agreement on the kernel though. And increasing agreement on systemd also improves this interpretability. And in user space, the DE's do a lot of heavy lifting as well on unifying UX interoperability to the degree I can fairly well use e.g. GNOME on either Linux or BSD. Certainly the gap between Honeywell flight director software, and whatever Airbus calls their flight management system or OS, is quite a big deal greater both in code and in the UX.
But contrariwise without the freedom and FOSS we wouldn't have Linux, we wouldn't have the (counter-)culture that grew up that gave us the original UNIX[1], BSD, the IMSAI and amateur computer clubs and led to the Apple ][, the PC, <strike>Patterson's</strike> Microsoft's OS for the 16-bit Intel chip, and in due course Linux, Android and OSX.
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