From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 30 Jul 2002 11:49:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 30 Jul 2002 11:49:55 -0400 Received: from thebsh.namesys.com ([212.16.7.65]:28688 "HELO thebsh.namesys.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Tue, 30 Jul 2002 11:49:55 -0400 Message-ID: <3D46B654.6070508@namesys.com> Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 19:52:52 +0400 From: Hans Reiser User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020529 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: martin@dalecki.de CC: Bill Davidsen , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Reiserfs developers mail-list Subject: Re: [2.6] Most likely to be merged by Halloween... THE LIST] References: <3D46A6BD.40909@evision.ag> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Marcin Dalecki wrote: > > I don't like PAM either. > > But a better analogy is: Think flash in HTML. > > > Try plugins for Photoshop. Or think of it as being like VFS but more so. You can add good features or bad features, but being able to add features with fewer lines of code per feature is a plus. Oses that do not mutate go extinct. I don't expect any of this to convince you though. People who don't like change are not swayable by argument for the most part. -- Hans