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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.
Con drove Con away. Someone update me if this news is stale - but Kolivas blamed hacking for all of his woes and didn't just quit kernel development when he left. Even if he is still hacking - the statements he made at the time are worth branding the guy over.
He was not a maintainer, he was something of an artist. He could not control himself once emotions became involved and this is a fatal flaw with the maintainers.
Everything I saw at the time these things went down suggested that Con had decided he wanted a particular thing from his involvement in the kernel - and it was the one thing he was not well suited to receive.
Alan, Linus, you both still rock in my book. Nearly every day for the past 13 years I have benefited from all you've done -- both personally and professionally. Squabbles happen, and it's not my place to judge -- cuz no matter what you've both given me a helluva lot more than I've given either of you.
Keep on kicking ass and taking names, however you are happy to do so.
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LOAD, LKLM, LOAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaadeh! *breathes*
Gotta love the simplicity of Cox's message.
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That he's a Cox shucker!!
That's not Linux, that's KDE or Gnome you are talking about.
Pedantry like this, which willfully ignores the issue at hand, is a kind of passive-aggressiveness which is an example of the attitude problem the parent was referring to.
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