Modern File Heirarchy

Bryan Livingston bryanlivingston at gmail.com
Sun Sep 3 06:24:04 UTC 2006


> I agree that the traditional hierarchy isn't all that obvious, but it's not
> all that bad either. The way forward isn't incremental mucking with what
> things are called, but in rethinking the basic assumptions of the model.
> (Start with "why a hierarchy?")

Doing away with the hierarchy reminds me of the way that macs try to
sweep the actual file system under the rug and hide it behind a gui.
That might be fine for dumb end users but as a power user it totally
turns me off.

-- 
Bryan Livingston




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