From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261400AbULCE44 (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Dec 2004 23:56:56 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261969AbULCE4z (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Dec 2004 23:56:55 -0500 Received: from wproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.184.198]:59598 "EHLO wproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261400AbULCE4x (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Dec 2004 23:56:53 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=nFwYT9a6K44WpyDzHqHyr+fu9HQ0owehzAKAsGrsKIGEZUjulpS1jzawOpvpbQCfeM7Wn2lBkCBy7Tp4f7zyeg+mmd2ZlsE9OGWlGAc6sBHAJWpM6aDh029J8sYw83NXe54kmQNCb2qC2tXwAitf9hbVpQTgSkA8TiEzkntWOfA= Message-ID: <5d3341c0041202205640aef878@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 22:56:52 -0600 From: Mark Miller Reply-To: Mark Miller To: "Randy.Dunlap" Subject: Re: Contribute - How to Cc: ram mohan , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <41AFEB48.60800@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <20041203042003.57961.qmail@web90007.mail.scd.yahoo.com> <41AFEB48.60800@osdl.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 02 Dec 2004 20:27:52 -0800, Randy.Dunlap wrote: > ram mohan wrote: > > 4. Can I suggest new features? > Of course. But part of the Linux culture is that > ideas/suggestions don't carry much weight. It's > sometimes phrased as: > Shut up and code. > or > Show us the code. > so send patches too. :) While this may be true of those on the Linux Kernel Mailing List, I would hope (from your statement of "Linux Culture", this would involve things periphially related to Linux, such as KDE), that ideas and suggestions would actually carry _some_ wait. Although I can fully understand developers of the Linux Kernel taking this mindset, since it is not dealing with such things as the User Interface. Just something I've had to deal with recently. Don't mind me. > -- > ~Randy -- Mark A. Miller mirell@gmail.com US +1 512 796 3592 http://mirell.org -------------------------------------------------------- Vice President and CFO of Linucon http://linucon.org