Comment Re:Another step away from UN*X (Score 1) 38
Yet another step of Linux moving further away from UNX. Originally UNX was suppose to process plain text
Here we go again: the "UNIX purity spiral meets corporate paranoia" routine. Anything newer than cat | grep | awk is framed as apostasy. But let’s be clear—JSON is plain text. It’s structured, readable, and greppable. Just because it has curly braces and isn’t whitespace-delimited doesn’t mean it violates the UNIX philosophy. If anything, it enables composability at modern scale.
now we have yet another stupid standard.
That’s not critique, that’s tantrum. A2A solves a real problem: how autonomous agents—across orgs and tech stacks—securely talk, delegate, and coordinate. Calling it “stupid” because you don’t like the names on the contributor list isn’t analysis. It’s emotional filtering.
Since the Linux Foundation is owned by Microsoft, IBM, Google, Oracle and other Fortune 500 companies
Nope. This tired trope ignores history. The Linux Foundation is funded, not “owned,” by its contributors—just like most of the standards you rely on every day. TCP/IP came from DARPA—the epitome of the military-industrial complex. POSIX was shaped by a cabal of government agencies and corporate giants like AT&T, DEC, and IBM. If you think A2A is uniquely tainted by corporate influence, you’ve either forgotten where your tools came from—or you’re rewriting history to score rhetorical points.
looks like this is being pushed by corporations.
Of course it is. Because scale demands cooperation. Agents running in real-world systems need to coordinate across vendors and clouds. That’s not corporate overreach—that’s operational necessity. Standards are what stop everyone from reinventing a dozen different versions of the wheel.
How about forcing Nvidia to open up their GPU, that is what the real Linux Users want more than anything else.
Then post that—in a relevant thread. A2A isn’t about GPU drivers. Throwing in a “what about Nvidia?” grenade is just derailment theater. It doesn’t make you principled; it makes you unfocused.
Even Linus at one time called out Nvidia on this.
True. But Linus also understands context. This thread is about agent interoperability, not proprietary firmware. If you want to advocate for open GPU stacks, do it properly—not by hijacking an unrelated technical discussion.
You clearly have opinions. But this kind of reactionary sprayfire—where a new proposal is framed as a betrayal of UNIX, a sellout to corporations, and a distraction from your personal wishlist—doesn’t help the conversation. It drowns the signal, misdirects the focus, and just derails the thread.