The writer of this is just an overblown troll, backed by an industry that stands to lose basically everything when cars don't require drivers. Circular logic? Check. Overly flowery, net-zero phrases and rhetorical questions? Check. Erroneous assumptions? Hat trick!
I think you missed the point, and most of the comments. But I won't lay into you, because I don't believe anyone has made it plain.
The point is that this person should have known better. In fact, they did. End of story. They knew better, but that did not apparently affect the process enough to avert a negative outcome. Hence, Linus' response.
A.C., though your comment isn't clear in its entirety, I'll attempt to address what I see as a gross logical error:
I'm curious as to how Linus' comments are somehow going to result in a more unstable linux, according to you. Your fat check writer (pun intended), is interested in stability? The stability of what? If Linus hadn't been steering this process for years under the banner of "DO NOT BREAK USERSPACE", Linux wouldn't even be here for your corpulent bean counter to consider writing checks FOR, much less be interested in (the unclear part of your comment) how stable its development-base is.
In fact, the more I consider your comment, the more I'm surprised you haven't been unavoidably, mortally confused earlier in life.
This is going to be a case of "Your betters know better", which simply will not fly. I will take wikipedia with its inaccuracy any day, over a closed publication model with a range of possible slants to its subtle editorializing and crafty omissions, all created by funding requirements.
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The writer of this is just an overblown troll, backed by an industry that stands to lose basically everything when cars don't require drivers. Circular logic? Check. Overly flowery, net-zero phrases and rhetorical questions? Check. Erroneous assumptions? Hat trick!
Please don't feed the trolls.
So,
What would happen if you put this thing on a giant treadmill, and pointed it either upwind or downwind?
Hairyfeet,
I think you missed the point, and most of the comments. But I won't lay into you, because I don't believe anyone has made it plain.
The point is that this person should have known better. In fact, they did. End of story. They knew better, but that did not apparently affect the process enough to avert a negative outcome. Hence, Linus' response.
A.C., though your comment isn't clear in its entirety, I'll attempt to address what I see as a gross logical error:
I'm curious as to how Linus' comments are somehow going to result in a more unstable linux, according to you. Your fat check writer (pun intended), is interested in stability? The stability of what? If Linus hadn't been steering this process for years under the banner of "DO NOT BREAK USERSPACE", Linux wouldn't even be here for your corpulent bean counter to consider writing checks FOR, much less be interested in (the unclear part of your comment) how stable its development-base is.
In fact, the more I consider your comment, the more I'm surprised you haven't been unavoidably, mortally confused earlier in life.
Wait, is this the same AT&T that didn't officially admit until somewhere in the 'aughts that packet switching was actually a viable technology?
The same AT&T that couldn't possibly understand why telephones would replace the telegraph?
The same AT&T that tells Congress that competition among telcos hurts consumers?
Something doesn't seem quite right, here.
Because you want more than one mouse button, for instance?
fully encrypted, hahaha. yeah right.
April first already?
This is going to be a case of "Your betters know better", which simply will not fly. I will take wikipedia with its inaccuracy any day, over a closed publication model with a range of possible slants to its subtle editorializing and crafty omissions, all created by funding requirements.
No, thank you. I'll pass.
solaris on a machine with 64MB of RAM. IDE. hmmm.
how 'bout those char reads? reading one char at a time with read? boy, i bet that's *fast*.
block size? how was that converted back to kb/s? i'm of the mind someone wasn't paying attention to their units. so to speak.
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