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Linus Explains his Patch Policy

Posted by chrisd on from the read-it-twice dept.

An anonymous reader writes "For everyone who has been wondering the method behind Linus's seeming madness of accepting or dropping patches, he has finally given a thorough explanation. A must read for anyone who wants to get their favorite feature into the next release of the kernel."

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  1. Heheh. Hi. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    First anti-linux post? You fucking bet.

    1. Re:Heheh. Hi. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait
      that's not an anti-linux post. THIS is an anti linux post"

      LINUX sucks my balls!

  2. Great! by ArchieBunker · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    "It's as simple as that. I take stuff that I feel is good."

    Forget about technical merits or performance issues, its whatever he feels is good. Now I'll go back to being a smug BSD user.

    --
    Only the State obtains its revenue by coercion. - Murray Rothbard
    1. Re:Great! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait
      No. This is a meritocracy, not a democracy. The people in charge end up in charge because they've proven themselves by the quality of their work. Remember, an "official tree" only remains "official" as long as people are willing to call it that and treat it as that. "Official tree" in open-source terms is a de-facto label, not a de-jure one.
      Delude yourself if you must, but this alleged "meritocracy" is rife with the same kind of bullshit politics and "in-crowding" with which your standard oligarchic institutions are laden. You don't have to squint to read between Linus' lines: if you want your code in his tree, you have to campaign and get into his inner circle to get your patch accepted into his private tree.

      Linux is a clubhouse, not a salon. If you think otherwise it's because you scammed a key.
  3. Yes, he felt an untested VM subsystem was 'good' by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Thank God I stick with the -ac branch, at least that guy has his head on straight.

  4. Well, Linus appears to be a crank. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Nothing unusual about that on the Internet.

  5. Sorry, Linus is being an ass on the LKCD tsarkon by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I read the whole thread on the LKML. Linus has turned into a complete ass. He doesn't scale, Linux is a mess, and I personally have turned to FreeBSD for sanctuary. All I have to say is /usr/include/linux, amongst other things. Notice the EXT2 speedup was in FreeBSD first. Notice. I am really not fond of the political bull on the LKLM, Larry McVoy (he stole Sun Team Ware and called it bitkeeper/bitmover, its obvious.). JFS and XFS are being screwed over. ACLs was actually debated - like that's a hard one to figure out.

    Linux is now a sad timesink. With a loser who works for a loser CPU company, who makes loser CPUs, transgarbage doest even publish SPEC marks. They don't do SMP. The faster, lower power longer battery life Intel Pentium III ULV chips are faster and cheaper than Transtrash's code morphing crap.

    LINUS doesn't scale. And so I bid you farewell, you fat penguin. And Linux the fool talks about bloat? HAHAHAHAHAH. That whole fucking kernel is bloated SHIT.

  6. Patches? We don' need no steenking Patches! by InnovATIONS · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    Maybe it is just me, but this gives me no warm and fuzzies at all...

    Review process? I don't need no steenking review process. I just take the stuff I like from the people that I like. Make me like you!

    You don't like my patches? Make your own patches! Then we can have flame wars about whose patches is better than whose and why it is your fault that something don't run because you haven't got the right set of patches!