Re: Coding style - a non-issue

Horst von Brand
2001-12-02T19:22:31Z

Victor Yodaiken <yodaiken@fsmlabs.com> said:

[...]

> Linux is what it is because of design, not accident. And you know
> that better than anyone.

I'd say it is better because the mutations themselves (individual patches)
go through a _very_ harsh evaluation before being applied in the "official"
sources. There is a population of kernels out there (each developer has a
few, distributions check out others, ...), only what survives there has got
a chance to be considered for inclusion.

Sure, this is not the only way Linux moves forward. But it is a large
factor in the success of "Release early. Release often. Take patches from
everywhere."
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