Reply to post: Re: It's fascinating that Linux now has the same problem as Windows

systemd-free Devuan Linux hits RC2

HieronymusBloggs

Re: It's fascinating that Linux now has the same problem as Windows

"A compiler translates one into the other and there's no reason at all why the compiler cannot compile a local variant of a programming language (eg АЛГОЛ 68) in exactly the same way that a local variant of a configuration file can be compiled into a culturally-independent one."

How would you apply this to a multi-national collaboration like the Linux kernel (or any other large FOSS project for that matter)? Sometimes a lingua franca is the only practical solution.

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