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Auteur: Jude Nelson
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Aan: KatolaZ
CC: dng@lists.dyne.org
Onderwerp: Re: [DNG] We Must be Prepared ....
Looks like Linus weighed in. I found the whole conversation thread
interesting.

http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1506.2/05492.html

-Jude

On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 5:28 PM, KatolaZ <katolaz@???> wrote:

> On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 08:15:01PM +0200, Didier Kryn wrote:
>
> [cut]
>
> >
> >     I think a new generation of programmers has been comitted to
> > maintain and evolve
> > Linux. They have strong technical skills but haven't been taught
> > well enough - or not at
> > all - the philosohy of UNIX. They have fun with Linux; they love
> > writing daemons and
> > using the IPC toolbox and they happily write daemons to replace the
> > security features
> > provided by good old file-permissions. They just don't realize the
> > damage they are
> > causing. They are professionals and they don't care the DIY guy who
> > isn't as skilled as
> > them.

> >
>
> Or...we are just blind cavemen, trying do keep alive a zombie that
> lives only in our memories and has evolved into something else, while
> we were busy flaming about the last flavours of Ubuntu?
>
> I just think it's not a matter of skill (unix has never ever been just
> a matter of skill), but rather a problem of bad attitude towards other
> peers, their work and their contributions. And good attitude towards
> peers is what has allowed the community around Linux to come along in
> these years. Without good attitude, what was once a community will
> slowly -but inexorably- become just a chit-chatty crowd, in which
> speaking louder than your peers would be far more important than
> having anything interesting to say at all.
>
> Well, I'd better stop here, and avoid the usual boring "auntie's
> rant"...
>
> HND
>
> KatolaZ
>
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