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From: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
Cc: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Fix for wrong OOM killer trigger?
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 08:13:32 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030920151332.GA18387@work.bitmover.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030920142314.GA1338@velociraptor.random>

On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 04:23:14PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> I refuse to use closed software myself for my critical tasks true,
> but I've never said closed software is bad.

Really?  So where's the source to the BIOS of your machine?  Your drive
firmware?  Do you drive a car?  Turn on a microwave?  Use a cell phone?

And didn't you say:

> I may have said sometime that binary only drivers are bad but that's
> just because of the pain they give after you recompile a kernel, and I
> change the kernel very often ;).

So if you don't use closed source then why is it that those binaries are
giving you a problem?  Could it be that you don't practice what you 
preach?  Oh, I see, it's OK to use closed source if you need to play
quake but not if you want to check in some code.  Sure, I can see how
that makes sense.  NOT.
-- 
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Larry McVoy              lm at bitmover.com          http://www.bitmover.com/lm

  reply	other threads:[~2003-09-20 15:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-09-19 17:16 Fix for wrong OOM killer trigger? Roland Bless
2003-09-19 17:30 ` Marc-Christian Petersen
2003-09-19 19:25 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-09-19 19:35   ` Russell King
2003-09-19 20:01     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-09-19 20:52       ` Larry McVoy
2003-09-19 21:05         ` Formal complaint , " Mr. James W. Laferriere
2003-09-20  6:36           ` David S. Miller
2003-09-20  3:31         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-09-20  4:30           ` Larry McVoy
2003-09-20 12:22             ` Bernd Schmidt
2003-09-20 13:52               ` Willy Tarreau
2003-09-20 13:54               ` Larry McVoy
2003-09-20 19:56                 ` Gateways (was Re: Fix for wrong OOM killer trigger?) Jamie Lokier
2003-09-20 20:14                   ` Larry McVoy
2003-09-21 11:52                     ` David S. Miller
2003-09-20 16:07               ` Fix for wrong OOM killer trigger? Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-09-20 14:23             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-09-20 15:13               ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2003-09-20 17:14                 ` Flames (was: Fix for wrong OOM killer trigger?) Stephen Satchell
2003-09-20 17:46                   ` Alan Cox
2003-09-21 10:40                 ` Fix for wrong OOM killer trigger? Eric W. Biederman
2003-09-21 14:22                   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-09-21 14:52                     ` Larry McVoy
2003-09-21 15:53                       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-09-23 12:46                     ` Bas Mevissen
2003-09-20 11:09   ` Roland Bless
2003-09-20 14:34     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-09-22 10:11       ` Roland Bless
2003-09-22 13:02         ` Andrea Arcangeli

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