Linus Torvalds: Backporting Is A Good Thing

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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Re:Who cares about Mr Thorwaldes?

[JWSmythe]

Ah cut him a break. He's busy admiring the MCSE cert on his wall. "Microsoft is great, for only a few thousand dollars, they made me a certified engineer." :)

I have my CCNA hanging on the wall, and stacks of Linux, Solaris, general *nix, Cisco, general networking, and programming books (many languages). The well worn books are my certification. The Perl reference books have visible marks where I thumb through the pages frequently. His books look like they just came out of a book store.