tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9726833.post1208959527633076983..comments2023-11-11T19:20:51.515+00:00Comments on The Trouble with Tribbles...: The commoditization of IT?Peter Tribblehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09363446984245451854noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9726833.post-86062878643731183092017-09-22T12:24:09.814+01:002017-09-22T12:24:09.814+01:00We could file that in the "everything's b...We could file that in the "everything's broken and nobody cares" bucket. But it is also another example of lock-in that is working against commoditization - this time by users, not vendors.Peter Tribblehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09363446984245451854noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9726833.post-65282651740651476282017-09-22T06:52:42.265+01:002017-09-22T06:52:42.265+01:00I'm with you by and large.
Its a bit of a ta...I'm with you by and large. <br /><br />Its a bit of a tangent but I work as the sole IT/sysadmin at an embedded software company with a Linux development environment and offices on almost opposite sides of the United States. It amazes me how often I get developers, many older than myself, asking why their shell scripts wont work. Well, you see by default on Ubuntu /bin/sh is dash. And your shell script seems to require bash. "Well fix it" they tell me. They are completely un-aware a shell other than bash exists, and that you might not want to write a shell script that calls /bin/sh to require non-bourne shell features. So I have to change every Ubuntu machine's /bin/sh symlink to bash or something someday will break and nobody can be bothered to actually fix it or even learn why its a problem. This past year I discovered what the agile development model is, something I was blissfully ignorant of before. <br /><br />I've been a long time BSD user, and (to a lesser extent) a Solaris/Illumos user and the longer I spend in the Linux/GNU/GPL/linuxy-software (<-- can't pin it down exactly) world the more and more annoyed with the poor standards and poor ideas we're stuck with. Granted its not just a Linux problem but thats where I see it the most. From my experience any software written explicitly "for Linux" has a very good chance of being kind of crap. At least once a day I find myself having to do things the stupid way because thats what we're stuck with forever now.Bill Snoreply@blogger.com