The Disaster of the Rolling Release
I’ve always enjoyed exploring. Every time I’ve moved from one residence to another, I’ve always wandered around my new neighborhood, simply to see what was there. It’s the same with computer technology. I love poking around operating systems. Lately, one aspect of this has gotten tiring in every Open Source operating system: the rolling release. The phrase refers to the sometimes feverish effort to add new features, long before the old ones even work properly. Thus, every day sees sometimes radical changes in various projects, new features and new bloat.
This is the ancient schizophrenia between creativity and usefulness. Not everything in life has to be useful to be necessary. Decoration for no other purpose is fine, and differing tastes are seldom a simple matter of refinement and morality. The original meaning of “character” is the quality of being distinguished from others in the same category, applied primarily to inscribed letters of any given alphabet. Since God knows each of us individually and more intimately than we could know ourselves, we do best to discover what He has made in us, not conforming ourselves to the artificial constraints of someone else’s character. However, individuality does not justify destroying or harming others. So, a gal can pierce all her facial features if she likes, and I’ll support her choice no matter how repulsive I find it. But she can’t expect me to gaze upon her “beauty,” much less want to kiss her. If she also wants to interact with me, she’ll have to make some sacrifices. That’s what civilization is all about: Having a set of cultural expectations which make it possible for humans to live in close proximity without killing each other.
Also: Decreasing Returns: Put the Brakes on Rolling Release
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