From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262603AbTKDVyl (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Nov 2003 16:54:41 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262609AbTKDVyl (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Nov 2003 16:54:41 -0500 Received: from sccrmhc13.comcast.net ([204.127.202.64]:64744 "EHLO sccrmhc13.comcast.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262603AbTKDVyk (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Nov 2003 16:54:40 -0500 Message-ID: <3FA77756.8020606@namesys.com> Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2003 01:54:30 -0800 From: Hans Reiser User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Fedyk CC: Stephan von Krawczynski , Herbert Xu , akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Debian Kernels was: 2.6.0test9 Reiserfs boot time "buffer layer error at fs/buffer.c:431" References: <20031029141931.6c4ebdb5.akpm@osdl.org> <20031101233354.1f566c80.akpm@osdl.org> <20031102092723.GA4964@gondor.apana.org.au> <20031102014011.09001c81.akpm@osdl.org> <20031102210942.GA9635@gondor.apana.org.au> <20031103112008.5ac6a6cc.skraw@ithnet.com> <3FA75F05.8070903@namesys.com> <20031104210310.GA1068@matchmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20031104210310.GA1068@matchmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.76.7.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime 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 Mike Fedyk wrote: > Just because Debian is > >completely OSS and maintained mostly by unpaid volunteers, that shouldn't keep >them from having a seperate tree like everyone else. > > Yes it should. They have less fiscal motivation to horde software than other distros, and a distro having it's own tree is a mild version of software hording in which you don't do anything legally to stop others from copying your code but you don't do the work necessary for them to share in it either. -- Hans