Re: [GD-Linux] ANN: Candy Cruncher for Linux shipped

[J C L. <cl...@ka...>]

On Tue, 26 Feb 2002 16:22:50 -0500 (EST) 
Ryan C Gordon <ic...@cl...> wrote:

> Why don't people complain that there isn't a unified way to do
> ANYTHING in Linux instead? That would solve the problem much
> better...we could remove half of SDL's code, and 75% of the
> installer system.

Evolutionary systems don't norm towards such standards until the
respective areas have become so entrenched as to no longer be
(significantly) subject to evolutionary forces.  Or more simply:
norming happens when the potential value of norming to the
individual exceeds the perceived value of differentiation.

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