On Sat, Mar 06, 2010 at 11:28:16AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> On Sat, 6 Mar 2010, Sergio Monteiro Basto wrote:
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> > On Sat, 2010-03-06 at 09:40 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > > Why are people making excuses for bad programming and bad technology?
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> > Is not bad technology is new
On Sat, Mar 06, 2010 at 08:52:35PM +, Alan Cox wrote:
> > They want the benefits of lots of testers, without wanting to be
> > courteous to those testers.
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> Except for the small rather important detail that the Nouveau developers
> didn't ask for it to be merged in the first place.
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*Some
On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 11:38:46AM -0800, Corbin Simpson wrote:
> If distros want to run weird experiments on their users, let them!
> Sure, sometimes bad things happen, but sometimes good things happen
> too. ConsoleKit, DeviceKit, HAL, NetworkManager, KMS, yaird, dracut,
> Plymouth, the list goes
On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 05:04:14PM +, Alan Cox wrote:
> You can only see it as malicious if you assume they ever had some reason
> to keep compatibility or had promised it somewhere. Quite the reverse
> happened, and they never asked to be upstream in the first place.
The reason why this threa
On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 06:04:34PM +0200, Daniel Stone wrote:
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> So you're saying that there's no way to develop any reasonable body of
> code for the Linux kernel without committing to keeping your ABI
> absolutely rock-solid stable for eternity, no exceptions, ever? Cool,
> that worked really w
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 08:20:57PM +1000, Dave Airlie wrote:
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> Well the main thing was I wasn't mean to discuss possible legal issues
> and still don't have permission, you know as well as I do once lawyers are
> involved you have to keep out of things until they deal with them.
The thing which
