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Hi,

On Fri, 15 Feb 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> In fact, in many ways, maybe we'd be better off counting (non-space) 
> bytes rather than lines. That gets the "complexity" argument mostly 
> right.

I don't like it.  It's not simple enough.  Let's stay with 3 lines, and if 
it turns out to be a bad choice, change it to two.

Ciao,
Dscho