Eric S. Raymond commented that while this law goes against the minimalist philosophy of Unix (a set of "small, sharp tools"), it actually addresses the real need of end users to keep together tools for interrelated tasks, even though for a coder implementation of these tools clearly consists of independent jobs.
Eric Raymond komentira da dok ovaj zakon ide protiv minimalističke filozofije Unixa (skup "malih, otrih alata"), zapravo adresira pravu potrebu krajnjih korisnika imati skupa alate za zadaće koje su u međuondosu, čak iako za kodera primjena ovih alata predstavlja jasno neovisne poslove.