Re: when distros do not support official Marcelo kernels they are not being team players (was Re: reiserfs on redhat advanced server?)

[Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>]

Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:

>On Mon, 03 Feb 2003 21:51:43 +0300, Hans Reiser said:
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>>I think it is much more like switching the engine in the car and 
>>expecting the car company to honor the warranty on the air conditioner, 
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>On many cars, the air conditioner is powered by a belt that is driven by
>the engine, and the air conditioner is assuming that the engine will be
>within some range of RPM and torque provided.  If the swapped engine doesn't
>stay within those ranges, the air conditioner will fail.
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Yes, this was the car manufacturer argument.  Funny how everybody 
somehow manages to cope with all those aftermarket carburetors and 
non-standard batteries bought from unknown sources like Sears, Kragen, 
and Wal-Mart despite all of that.  The world is much better because some 
judge of my father's generation ensured that for a car manufacturer to 
void a warranty they have to have a motivated reason for doing so.  Now 
with people wanting to substitute the Linux Kernel for the RedHat 
Kernel, a new generation of technologists faces an old question. 

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>The kernel equivalent is somebody changing an API and not fixing all callers.
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Motivated failure to support is correct.  Failing to support because it 
was not manufactured by the dominant market force is evil.

-- 
Hans