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> I don't want to help bad programs run; I want to stop them from running.

This attitude is the OPPOSITE of what Linus Torvalds advocates and may be the primary reason why Linux is more successful than OpenBSD.

I should add that successful software may be valuable to some but less to others.



This roughly matches my experience with OpenBSD. OpenBSD and any software that runs on it is absolutely rock solid.

However, it's not necessarily easy to install any of the mediocrely-written, but possibly useful, software that is abundantly available for Linux.

This may or may not make sense depending on what you are doing.


s/successful/popular/g


Right, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worse_is_better


If it would be that simple, everybody would be running Microsoft Windows.

Oh, wait...

(It's sarcasm. I think Win8 is actually really nice in some aspects even if inferior to everything else overall.)




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