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From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: reiser4 for 2.6.27-rc1
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:04:46 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <g8v2fv$3lp$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080813143613.61101a5e@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>

Alan Cox wrote:
>> And yes, I think Hans lost his right to decide over the name because of 
>> what he has done. That is no disrespect for his work, only for him as 
>> person in general, and I do strongly disrespect him as a person.
> 
> So should ever reissue of a work by Gary Glitter have the name removed
> from the cover, every opera by Wagner have the name removed for his
> attitudes ?
> 
> History is a one way street, and you might as well have the fs known the
> way it is so that people remember "reiser oh wasn't he the guy who.." -
> unless you are trying to market the fs I guess.
> 
A one way street indeed, I see no reason to rename the f/s since the 
association will remain. People who follow Linux will know anyway, and I 
doubt most people will remember one more guy who killed his wife during 
a nasty divorce. Sad to say there's a lot of that around.

-- 
Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
   "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
the machinations of the wicked."  - from Slashdot


  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-08-25 19:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-04 12:26 reiser4 for 2.6.27-rc1 Tim Tassonis
2008-08-13 12:58 ` Pavel Machek
2008-08-13 13:18   ` Adrian Bunk
2008-08-13 13:24     ` Michael Krufky
2008-08-13 13:34       ` Adrian Bunk
2008-08-13 13:30         ` Alan Cox
2008-08-13 13:46         ` Michael Krufky
2008-08-13 14:50           ` Frans Meulenbroeks
2008-08-13 23:04         ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-08-25 20:09           ` Bill Davidsen
2008-08-13 13:37       ` Tim Tassonis
2008-08-13 13:36         ` Alan Cox
2008-08-13 14:00           ` Tim Tassonis
2008-08-13 14:59             ` Ryan Hope
2008-08-13 15:24               ` Tim Tassonis
2008-08-13 16:18                 ` Jeff Chua
2008-08-13 16:30                 ` Ryan Hope
2008-08-25 20:04           ` Bill Davidsen [this message]
2008-08-13 13:56     ` Andi Kleen
2008-08-13 14:02       ` Tim Tassonis
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-08-01 13:49 Ryan Hope
2008-08-01 16:25 ` Theodore Tso
2008-08-01 16:34   ` Ryan Hope
2008-08-01 16:45     ` Theodore Tso
2008-08-01 18:15       ` Ric Wheeler
2008-08-01 22:40         ` Edward Shishkin
2008-08-02 15:47           ` Ryan Hope
2008-08-02 22:56             ` Edward Shishkin
2008-08-02 23:18               ` Ryan Hope
2008-08-04 11:11                 ` Edward Shishkin
2008-08-04 11:18                   ` Dushan Tcholich
2008-08-04 11:34                     ` Dushan Tcholich
2008-08-02  2:30   ` Alexey Dobriyan

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