Re: reiser4 vs politics: linux misses out again

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>]

On Sat, Jul 02, 2005 at 09:05:41AM -0400, Ed Cogburn wrote:
> Assuming "fast and cool" here equates to some level of improvement to the
> existing kernel, and/or new features/capabilities not currently available,
> then are you saying "fast and cool" isn't good enough anymore, you now have
> to be politically correct and socially popular and a master brown-noser as
> well to get code into the kernel even just on an *experimental* basis?
> 
> In reality, the implied attitude behind your statement actually *guarantees*
> a fork of Linux at some point down the road if you keep stonewalling the
> inclusion of something that clearly has enormous potential, because for
> many people "fast and cool" IS THE DESIRED OBJECTIVE, and by saying no to
> that, YOU are the one setting the stage for a fork.

In fact such a fork would be a great thing.  Let people play fast and loose
who want to do that, and if they don't manage to break it and the feature
is still cool a while later we clean it up and merge it into Linux proper.