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Linus Torvalds: Backporting Is A Good Thing

Posted by timothy on from the martha-agrees dept.

darthcamaro writes "Looks like we don't need to speculate on what Linus' opinion is on backporting. Internetnews.com is running a story this morning that includes Linus' comments on the issue which was a /. topic yesterday. When asked by e-mail to comment for internetnews.com, Torvalds wrote: 'I think it makes sense from a company standpoint to basically "cherry-pick" stuff from the development version that they feel is important to their customers. And in that sense I think the back-porting is actually a very good thing.'"

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  1. TIME by RoadkillBunny · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Speaking of Linus Torvalds, he is one of the 100 men that made a impact in the current edition of TIME (Canadian Edition).

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  2. Re:Quit idolizing Linus Torvalds by Laser+Lou · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    That comment is quite offensive.

    Much of my family are Catholics, and they could out reason, out free think, and out qualify you any day of the week.

    What's your real agenda in saying such a thing pipsqueak?

    You took my comment the wrong way. Gosh, I defend Catholicism sometimes before others, even though I'm a Lutheran. The previous poster seemed to reject any concept of leadership or authority, so I expressed a foregone conclusion that he doesn't believe in papal infalliability.

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    No data, no cry
  3. Re:True story... by sageo · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    If it's brown flush it down if it's yellow let it mellow letting the brown float is just wrong, but if i flushed every time i pissed with the ammount of drinks i have a day, i'd be paying almost as much for water as i am for broadband!