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| DATE | 2015-11-08 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Re: [Hangout-NYLXS] Fun with FUD in the largest Washington Post
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On 11/08/2015 10:47 AM, Rick Moen wrote:
> Quoting Ruben Safir (ruben-at-mrbrklyn.com):
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>> Linux sucks... hat is he short version
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> Extremely useful. Thanks!
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Going my own way
Oct. 6th, 2015 01:38 pm
[personal profile] mjg59
Reaction to Sarah's post about leaving the kernel community was a
mixture of terrible and touching, but it's still one of those things
that almost certainly won't end up making any kind of significant
difference. Linus has made it pretty clear that he's fine with the way
he behaves, and nobody's going to depose him. That's unfortunate,
because earlier today I was sitting in a presentation at Linuxcon and
remembering how much I love the technical side of kernel development.
"Remembering" is a deliberate choice of word - it's been increasingly
difficult to remember that, because instead I remember having to deal
with interminable arguments over the naming of an interface because
Linus has an undying hatred of BSD securelevel, or having my name
forever associated with the deepthroating of Microsoft because Linus
couldn't be bothered asking questions about the reasoning behind a
design before trashing it.
In the end it's a mixture of just being tired of dealing with the crap
associated with Linux development and realising that by continuing to
put up with it I'm tacitly encouraging its continuation, but I can't be
bothered any more. And, thanks to the magic of free software, it turns
out that I can avoid putting up with the bullshit in the kernel
community and get to work on the things I'm interested in doing. So
here's a kernel tree with patches that implement a BSD-style securelevel
interface. Over time it'll pick up some of the power management code I'm
still working on, and we'll see where it goes from there. But, until
there's a significant shift in community norms on LKML, I'll only be
there when I'm being paid to be there. And that's improved my mood
immeasurably.
(Edited to add a context link for the "deepthroating of Microsoft"
reference)
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