In the Unix system view, anything which needs to talk to raw devices INSTEAD OF THE KERNEL DOING SO is broken. There are no apologies to be made. Period. If you want X to talk to IO devices, what next? ls?

I am very easy to get along with, but I don't have time to waste being nice to people who are being stupid.

Hardly surprising. Apple. They build crap and make you pay extra.

Scaling isn't really our concern; I barely know what the word means. There is one group of people who we do know scales. Whiners. They scale really well.