&gt; The &quot;UNIX philosophy&quot; is good, it&#x27;s just that UNIX doesn&#x27;t really follow it.<p>Well you know what they say. Talk is cheap. Ideas are basically free. Following through is hard.<p>Having an abstract ideal is worthless if you are just going to squirm and excuse yourself when you don&#x27;t follow through on them. Which is basically what Unix does when you question whether it follows what it preaches.