From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Remember that Linus has *always* reserved the right to change his mind > if a "sufficiently good" idea came along. So it's not as > much a "The Emperor > Penguin Has Decreed" as "Nobody's made a sufficiently > convincing case to Linus". > (And I've never seen Linus claim to be totally consistent on > what qualifies as > "sufficiently" - he can be a lot more stubborn about some > things and flexible on > on others)
From: Theodore Ts'o > The distributions (by and large) honor it, but other than that, you > seem to have a slightly overinflated view how much weight and how much > formalities such statements actually have. > > The problem with collecting it, as other people have pointd out, is > that it implies that all such statements are valid forever (such as a > Pope's encyclical) or that we have some formal way of blessing a > statement by sprinkling Holy Penguin Pee on it, or some way of > retracting such a blessing (probably involving some ceremony involving > turning a candle upside down and snuffing it out :-). <sigh> I was in a hurry and mimiced the wording of the referenced post, nothing more, nothing less. Policy would have been a better choice. I am under no illusions about validity or duration or whatnot. ..Stu - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
