Re: How innovative is Linux?

[jimmy bahuleyan <knight.camelot@gmail.com>]

Grozdan Nikolov wrote:
> On Saturday 23 June 2007 19:53, you wrote:
>> On Sat, 2007-06-23 at 14:17 +0200, Grozdan Nikolov wrote:
>> [...]
>>
>>> Please CC me as I'm not subscribe to this mailing list,
>> Perhaps you should change that and find most answers for yourself.
>>
>>> Thanks!
>> Thanks!
>>
>> 	Bernd
> 
> Perhaps you should change your rude attitude towards people who are seeking 
> for answers without actually looking for rants or flame-wars. If you have 
> read my replies to Alan, you should know why I asked these questions.... To 
> clarify something that might be incorrect or biased in the articles I've read 
> so far... if you could tell me a better place to ask about Linux internal 
> stuff, please tell me so...... 
> 

well, i would say this - put yourself into the shoes of a kernel
developer who barely has time to keep track of the large volume of
development work, discussions, testing, etc. Then someone who claims to
be not a kernel developer, who isn't subscribed to the list comes along
and says 'there is _no_ innovation in the linux kernel'. What would your
reaction be?

I'm not a kernel developer myself, but i think there are lots of
resources on the internet where you can read watered down versions of
discussions happening on this list.

> willing to answer or clarify some things to a person who's just looking for 
> the *correct* answers
> 

Of course, everyone wants to learn from the gurus. But confronting them
in this way hardly seems the right way ;)

-jb
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