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Auteur: Marlon Nunes
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Aan: dng
Onderwerp: Re: [DNG] We Must be Prepared ....
On 2015-06-23 22:20, Jude Nelson wrote:
> Looks like Linus weighed in. I found the whole conversation thread
> interesting.
>
> http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1506.2/05492.html [3]
>
> -Jude


"We don't merge kernel code just because user space was written by a
retarded monkey on crack."
"Kernel code has higher standards ... "
Linus nailed it!

>>
>> [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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