From: Allen Campbell <lkml@campbell.cwx.net>
To: Martin Dalecki <dalecki@evision-ventures.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: latest linus-2.5 BK broken
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 18:09:07 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020620180907.A8704@const.> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3D125A0C.3000802@evision-ventures.com>; from dalecki@evision-ventures.com on Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 12:41:16AM +0200
> Perhaps it's just still too deep in to my brain that
> the overwhelimg part of the PC market is still determined
> by corporate buyers (70%). And they look for efficiency (well within
> wide boundaries :-).
Most of those buyers care about cost efficiency, not design
efficiency. If a 4 way Dell can just match a 2 way Sun, and for
half the cost, guess who gets the sale. Doesn't matter if it's
"naive" SMP or a beautiful cross-bar design, blessed by MIT. Yes,
it's ugly. Sure, it would be nice if everyone loved computing so
much that they actually cared enough to make the distinction. They
don't. Get over it.
As long as Linux is true to the market it will thrive. The moment
the motivation becomes someone's pedantic notion of "purity", it's
gone. I believe Linus understands this, and I'm thankful. I'm
guessing that gift of understanding comes from a time when a certain
programmer couldn't afford to pay for the elegance that was offered
at the time.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-06-21 0:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 97+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-06-18 17:18 latest linus-2.5 BK broken James Simmons
2002-06-18 17:46 ` Robert Love
2002-06-18 18:51 ` Rusty Russell
2002-06-18 18:43 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2002-06-18 18:56 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-06-18 18:59 ` Robert Love
2002-06-18 20:05 ` Rusty Russell
2002-06-18 20:05 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-06-18 20:31 ` Rusty Russell
2002-06-18 20:41 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-06-18 21:12 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-06-18 21:08 ` Cort Dougan
2002-06-18 21:47 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-06-19 12:29 ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-06-19 17:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-06-20 3:57 ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-06-20 5:24 ` Larry McVoy
2002-06-20 7:26 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-06-20 14:54 ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-06-20 15:41 ` McVoy's Clusters (was Re: latest linus-2.5 BK broken) Sandy Harris
2002-06-20 17:10 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-06-20 20:42 ` Timothy D. Witham
2002-06-21 5:16 ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-06-22 14:14 ` Kai Henningsen
2002-06-20 16:30 ` latest linus-2.5 BK broken Cort Dougan
2002-06-20 17:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-06-21 6:15 ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-06-21 17:50 ` Larry McVoy
2002-06-21 17:55 ` Robert Love
2002-06-21 18:09 ` Linux, the microkernel (was Re: latest linus-2.5 BK broken) Jeff Garzik
2002-06-21 18:46 ` Cort Dougan
2002-06-21 20:25 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-06-22 1:07 ` Horst von Brand
2002-06-22 1:23 ` Larry McVoy
2002-06-22 12:41 ` Roman Zippel
2002-06-23 15:15 ` Sandy Harris
2002-06-23 17:29 ` Jakob Oestergaard
2002-06-24 6:27 ` Craig I. Hagan
2002-06-24 13:06 ` J.A. Magallon
2002-06-24 10:59 ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-06-21 19:34 ` Rob Landley
2002-06-22 15:31 ` Alan Cox
2002-06-22 12:24 ` Rob Landley
2002-06-22 19:00 ` Ruth Ivimey-Cook
2002-06-22 21:09 ` jdow
2002-06-23 17:56 ` John Alvord
2002-06-23 20:48 ` jdow
2002-06-23 21:40 ` [OT] " Xavier Bestel
2002-06-22 18:25 ` latest linus-2.5 BK broken Eric W. Biederman
2002-06-22 19:26 ` Larry McVoy
2002-06-22 22:25 ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-06-22 23:10 ` Larry McVoy
2002-06-23 6:34 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-06-23 22:56 ` Kai Henningsen
2002-06-20 17:16 ` RW Hawkins
2002-06-20 17:23 ` Cort Dougan
2002-06-20 20:40 ` Martin Dalecki
2002-06-20 20:53 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-06-20 21:27 ` Martin Dalecki
2002-06-20 21:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-06-20 21:59 ` Martin Dalecki
2002-06-20 22:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-06-20 22:41 ` Martin Dalecki
2002-06-21 0:09 ` Allen Campbell [this message]
2002-06-21 7:43 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2002-06-21 21:02 ` Rob Landley
2002-06-22 3:57 ` (RFC)i386 arch autodetect( was Re: latest linus-2.5 BK broken ) Matthew D. Pitts
2002-06-22 4:54 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-06-21 16:01 ` Re: latest linus-2.5 BK broken Sandy Harris
2002-06-21 20:38 ` Rob Landley
2002-06-20 21:13 ` Timothy D. Witham
2002-06-21 19:53 ` Rob Landley
2002-06-21 5:34 ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-06-19 10:21 ` Padraig Brady
2002-06-18 21:45 ` Bill Huey
2002-06-18 20:55 ` Robert Love
2002-06-19 13:31 ` Rusty Russell
2002-06-18 19:29 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-06-18 19:19 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2002-06-18 19:49 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-06-18 19:27 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2002-06-18 20:13 ` Rusty Russell
2002-06-18 20:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-06-18 22:03 ` Ingo Molnar
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-06-18 23:38 Michael Hohnbaum
2002-06-18 23:57 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-06-19 0:08 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-06-19 1:00 ` Matthew Dobson
2002-06-19 23:48 ` Michael Hohnbaum
[not found] <E17KSLb-0007Dj-00@wagner.rustcorp.com.au>
2002-06-19 0:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-06-19 15:23 ` Rusty Russell
2002-06-19 16:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-06-19 20:57 ` Rusty Russell
2002-06-20 23:48 Miles Lane
2002-06-21 7:31 Martin Knoblauch
2002-06-21 12:59 Jesse Pollard
2002-06-24 21:28 Paul McKenney
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