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!
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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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