As part of an “ask Linus” series, LinuxMall.com puts the question Linux creator Linus Torvalds, “Do you think Linux will avoid following the same 'fragmentation' route that killed UNIX? Why and how?” Not surprisingly, Linus provides an interesting and highly inciteful answer . . .

“It will, and it won't. Let me explain. What made the UNIX fragmentation so bad was that it was an 'overlapped' fragmentation — pretty much every single UNIX vendor went after the same market, which meant that every fragment really wanted to do the same things, but because of the lack of openness everybody ended up spending inordinate amounts of energy to re-invent the wheel that somebody else had already done.”

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