RE: Greg's Policy! (was Re: Linus' policies?)

["Stuart MacDonald" <stuartm@connecttech.com>]

From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
> Remember that Linus has *always* reserved the right to change his mind
> if a "sufficiently good" idea came along.  So it's not as 
> much a "The Emperor
> Penguin Has Decreed" as "Nobody's made a sufficiently 
> convincing case to Linus".
> (And I've never seen Linus claim to be totally consistent on 
> what qualifies as
> "sufficiently" - he can be a lot more stubborn about some 
> things and flexible on
> on others)

From: Theodore Ts'o
> The distributions (by and large) honor it, but other than that, you
> seem to have a slightly overinflated view how much weight and how much
> formalities such statements actually have.
> 
> The problem with collecting it, as other people have pointd out, is
> that it implies that all such statements are valid forever (such as a
> Pope's encyclical) or that we have some formal way of blessing a
> statement by sprinkling Holy Penguin Pee on it, or some way of
> retracting such a blessing (probably involving some ceremony involving
> turning a candle upside down and snuffing it out :-).   

<sigh> I was in a hurry and mimiced the wording of the referenced
post, nothing more, nothing less. Policy would have been a better
choice. I am under no illusions about validity or duration or whatnot.

..Stu