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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. Sonny Bono by yerricde · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Can you get it here in time for Christmas?

    You can deliver a source code tree, and you can deliver a pine tree, but not even a tree will help get rid of crazy American legislators that write counterproductive copyright laws.

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  2. So Linus by anon757 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    can't see the forest for the Trees?
    Ugh, I just had a flashback to my Windows 2000 Active directory training. Excuse me, I need to go shower now.

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  3. Re:Japanese Proverb... by Cryptnotic · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    That proverb is about conformity. If you do not conform yourself, you will be conformed. What Linus does is he ignores the people who want him to do things their way.

    Some moderator seems to have considered your comment Interesting. I however, would have called it Offtopic.

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