[kwlug-disc] What is all this about systemd?

[CrankyOldBugger]

Geesh... I used to work at the Lego factory... good times...



On 18 July 2014 19:43, Khalid Baheyeldin <kb at 2bits.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 7:25 PM, John Johnson <jvj at golden.net> wrote:
>
>>  On 2014-07-18 18:57, Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:
>>
>> If things are decoupled or loosely coupled, then we get to chose any lego
>> block to fit.
>>
>>  OT (maybe): Many decades ago, as a 10 year old I was enthralled by
>> plastic bricks made by a competitor to Lego.
>> I found that the Lego product was inferior as it was limited compared to
>> my choice.
>> But my choice disappeared from the market.
>>
>> I found out many years later that Lego had acquired the competitor and
>> closed it down.
>> Thus removing the option and the choice.
>>
>> JohnJ
>> sysadm: Unix System III
>>
>
> Very interesting ...
>
> A better analogy though is if Lego stopped making and selling the plain
> building blocks, and only sold the pieces that make up the Star Wars fleet.
>
> And to top it off, they changed the size of the connectors on the blocks
> to be incompatible with the old blocks.
>
> You have to throw away your old collection since it is not interoperable.
>
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