From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 18 May 2001 13:24:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 18 May 2001 13:24:18 -0400 Received: from snark.tuxedo.org ([207.106.50.26]:15369 "EHLO snark.thyrsus.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 18 May 2001 13:24:07 -0400 Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 13:22:35 -0400 From: "Eric S. Raymond" To: Michael Meissner Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Alan Cox , Tom Rini , Keith Owens , CML2 , kbuild-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [kbuild-devel] Re: CML2 design philosophy heads-up Message-ID: <20010518132235.O14309@thyrsus.com> Reply-To: esr@thyrsus.com Mail-Followup-To: "Eric S. Raymond" , Michael Meissner , Christoph Hellwig , Alan Cox , Tom Rini , Keith Owens , CML2 , kbuild-devel@lists.sourceforge.net In-Reply-To: <20010518105353.A13684@thyrsus.com> <20010518120434.F14309@thyrsus.com> <20010518180909.A10357@caldera.de> <20010518124355.A20191@munchkin.spectacle-pond.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010518124355.A20191@munchkin.spectacle-pond.org>; from meissner@spectacle-pond.org on Fri, May 18, 2001 at 12:43:55PM -0400 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Michael Meissner : > On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 06:09:09PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > Aunt Tillie shouldn't try to manually configure a kernel. > > Ummm, maybe Aunt Tillie wants to learn how to configure a kernel.... After > all, all of us at one point in time were newbies in terms of configuring > kernels, etc. And if she doesn't, maybe her teenage daughter Muffy wants to learn. You know, the one with the unicorn appliques and the pink scrunchies and the Back Street Boys posters in her bedroom? Dammit, if we're serious about empowering people with free software we can't limit ourselves with the attitude that configuring kernels (or anything else) is the sacred preserve of a geek elite. -- Eric S. Raymond The price of liberty is, always has been, and always will be blood. The person who is not willing to die for his liberty has already lost it to the first scoundrel who is willing to risk dying to violate that person's liberty. Are you free? -- Andrew Ford