From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 28 Jun 2001 18:19:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 28 Jun 2001 18:19:12 -0400 Received: from mailout00.sul.t-online.com ([194.25.134.16]:262 "EHLO mailout00.sul.t-online.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 28 Jun 2001 18:19:04 -0400 Date: 29 Jun 2001 00:20:00 +0200 From: kaih@khms.westfalen.de (Kai Henningsen) To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <83lrQramw-B@khms.westfalen.de> In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: Cosmetic JFFS patch. X-Mailer: CrossPoint v3.12d.kh7 R/C435 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: Organisation? Me?! Are you kidding? In-Reply-To: <20010627225421.A23843@vitelus.com> X-No-Junk-Mail: I do not want to get *any* junk mail. Comment: Unsolicited commercial mail will incur an US$100 handling fee per received mail. X-Fix-Your-Modem: +++ATS2=255&WO1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org chuckw@altaserv.net wrote on 28.06.01 in : > > > Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4 > > > Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 > > > > The later line is not something of interest to most people, and if it > > happens to be they can research it rather than being force-fed history > > on bootup. > > I've never met a single person who shared that opinion. In fact, quite the > contrary. It's the main source of currency in this space. If you can't > toot your own horn and/or share credit what's all of this open source > stuff worth? We aren't all Mother Theresa now... Does sed tell you who programmed it on startup? Awk? Perl? Groff? Gcc? See a pattern here? I might add that the most-used program I was one of several authors of *never* mentioned a single author in the program messages, with the single exception that the initials of the author actually compiling the source were part of the version string (in an attempt to control "just which patch to 7.53 are you talking about?" syndrome). I can't say this ever bothered me. MfG Kai