Re: Flame Linus to a crisp!

William Lee Irwin III
2003-04-24T06:02:55Z

On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 10:43:37PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> So I really want to set peoples _expectations_ right. I'd rather lose a
> developer over a flame-war here on Linux-kernel as a result of this
> discussion, than having somebody unhappy later on about having "wasted
> their time" on a project that then allowed things to happen that that
> developer felt was inherently morally _wrong_.
> And this is where it touches upon kernel development. Not because I expect
> to apply DRM patches in the near future or anything like that: but simply
> because it's better to bring up the issue so that people know where they
> stand, and not have the wrong expectations of how their code might be used
> by third parties.

Well, my walking out of computing is tied to complete prevention of
kernel hacking on commodity hardware, so you've not lost anything yet.
I only really care if it's no longer possible to get a commodity system
to run Linux on at all, not about crypto dongles.

-- wli