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Whitehurst mixes up planning with modularity, turns in to chicken licken.
In what seems to be a common move by open source CEOs - they call the cataclysmic end of the world - when all that is happening is the seasons are changing.

It certainly is the end of big-release monolithic software as we have become accustomed to - less due to planning and more due to the market segments which have evolved.

It makes sense to loosely couple operating system components - as the Unix and Linux community has known for decades - because it simplifies development and allows for an operating system focused on a specific segment.

This equates to (kind of) the concept of Linux Distro's - RHEL has a purpose,Ubuntu has a purpose, Zenwalk has a purpose - and each one is different.

Microsoft is seeing the benefit in doing this for the purpose of security, maintainability and reuse. Each version of Windows can never be completely NEW since it would mean the billions of dollars invested in previous versions would be wasted. If pieces of a system can be isolated however, then there is a better chance of reuse without security errors and design errors. This is about optimizing the investment Microsoft make in their own development.

Comparing errors per-thousand lines is just idiotic.

JC
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