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Alan Cox Quits As Linux TTY Maintainer — "I've Had Enough"
The Slashdolt writes "After a stern criticism from Linus, the long-time kernel hacker Alan Cox has decided to walk away as the maintainer of the TTY subsystem of the Linux Kernel, stating '...I've had enough. If you think that problem is easy to fix you fix it. Have fun. I've zapped the tty merge queue so anyone with patches for the tty layer
can send them to the new maintainer.'" A response to a subsequent post on the list makes it quite clear that he is serious.
http://xkcd.com/323/
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Everything.
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
Alan Cox announces he will maintain Slashcode: "After this, it will be bloody easy to maintain the Slashcode codebase."
Being smarter is a big factor in programming well. Being obviously smarter than those around you is, well, a major cause of huge ego syndrome.
Don't you get a swollen head when you walk amongst dullards? Every time I see somebody pushing at the 'pull' on a door, I feel my disdain for others rising. When I stand behind a dunce in line, and hear him ask how many eggs in a dozen, I grow more sure of my position among the intellectual greats. When a waiter is unable to figure sums on his pad to give me a total, that I might reimburse him fairly for his service, I scoff at the fools that populate this world. In fact, in every day, in every way, the imbeciles I walk around cause my ego to grow nigh unto titanic proportions, certain I must be nearly akin to God Himself in my intellectual powers.
And I can only program in Basic. Imagine those towers of mind that must be a C programmer!
Just another "DOJ fascist authoritarian totalitarian bootlicker" -- Zeio
Harry Truman used to say he didn't want to talk to experts because an expert was just someone who didn't want to learn anything more on a subject because if he did, then he'd find out he didn't know it all and wasn't an expert any longer.
Yeah, Harry was a real expert on experts.
I'm ready to scream bloody murder over it not being included yet.
Let me take a shot at summarizing the summary...
cox: have sum code lol!!!
:-/
user: ur kung fu is weak my pooter crashed and it's all ur fault lame!
cox: i feex! i feex! -starts furiously working-
A hush falls over the land, just then...
linus: RAWR! I SMASH!!! -flames shoot out of every orifice; a baby is heard crying in the distance-
cox: zOMG!!! -fills pants; amazingly, continues working furiously to "feex"-
linus: BRAWR! YOUR SLAVISH DEVOTION TO OTHERS ANGERS ME forabsolutelynoreason BRAWR!!!
user: wtf.
cox: -terrified of linus-beast, with singed eyebrow hairs- I leev! -boogies out, stage left-
bill gates (barely visible in background, deep stage right): -twirls mustachio-
all users: srsly, wtf.
me: -bows-
but have you considered the following argument: shut up.