Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 21:00:07 +0100
From: Al Viro
User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i
To: Mark Gross
Cc: Christoph Hellwig, Tim Bird, linux kernel
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: CE Linux Forum - Specification V1.0 draft
On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 12:32:48PM -0700, Mark Gross wrote:
> These are some of the types of problems engineers at REAL software shops have
> to solve to be able to ship REAL product for REAL money. If you haven't HAD
> to produce code like this yourself at some point in your carrier then you've
> lived a sheltered life.
>
> Its disingenuous for you to get on your ivory tower to point and laugh.
Well, you see, after spending years cleaning up the excrements
of self-styled "REAL engineers" it's either get on the tower to point and
laugh or get on the tower to point and shoot.
May 19, 2004
Al Viro on lkml, eloquent as usual
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Muli Ben-Yehuda's journal 
heh
Comment by brad — May 18, 2004 @ 11:25 PM |
Al Viro rocks my world. I’m still waiting for a flame haiku, though…
Comment by mulix — May 19, 2004 @ 1:09 AM |
What kind of excrement is it?
Comment by bicoherent — May 19, 2004 @ 12:22 AM |
from what I understand from the thread, a proposal that is a thinly veiled effort to push (apparently crappy) code from the companies participating in the proposal into the kernel.
Comment by mulix — May 19, 2004 @ 1:10 AM |
I vote for point and shoot.
Comment by 77azkkr — May 19, 2004 @ 9:01 AM |