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A Forest of Kernel Trees

  Date:Feb 04 2002

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As a reader from Australia noted in an e-mail to me, "evolution is by definition an undirected process with natural selection." You might, however, argue that there is undoubtedly some direction in the Linux kernel development. In the context of evolution Torvalds represents natural selection, and kernel developers changing the code represent mutation, albeit a poor representation because the developers have some sense and purpose in what they do, while mutation "in nature" has absolutely none.


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