Honestly, I am also not that much of an expert in it, but I know enough to know that some software team having and expanding this amount of control over the entire GNU/Linux world is dangerous.
I value my ability to use Firefox, Chromium, Konqueror, Dillo, Websurf, Qutebrowser, Elinks or whatever other browser I want; if there was only one system-wide webkit that everyone suddenly needed to use for anything that had to do with the net, I’d be queasy about it because that’s a lot of power in one team’s hands. And that not all “open source” teams are benevolent is pretty obvious when you look at the corporate-backed ones like Canonical’s Ubuntu, or Red Hat; or even Mozilla given their recent bouts with spyware.
The “unix philosophy” that so many people tout about is a little silly, given that the entire point of GNU was “GNU is not Unix”… and we are not in the 90s anymore. But still, a modular system with plenty of small things doing one thing well is at least secure to any hostile takeovers since a small package can easily be replaced by an alternative.
Honestly, I am also not that much of an expert in it, but I know enough to know that some software team having and expanding this amount of control over the entire GNU/Linux world is dangerous.
I value my ability to use Firefox, Chromium, Konqueror, Dillo, Websurf, Qutebrowser, Elinks or whatever other browser I want; if there was only one system-wide webkit that everyone suddenly needed to use for anything that had to do with the net, I’d be queasy about it because that’s a lot of power in one team’s hands. And that not all “open source” teams are benevolent is pretty obvious when you look at the corporate-backed ones like Canonical’s Ubuntu, or Red Hat; or even Mozilla given their recent bouts with spyware.
The “unix philosophy” that so many people tout about is a little silly, given that the entire point of GNU was “GNU is not Unix”… and we are not in the 90s anymore. But still, a modular system with plenty of small things doing one thing well is at least secure to any hostile takeovers since a small package can easily be replaced by an alternative.