>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Jul 16 15:36:51 2003 >> Linus Torvalds usually blocks them :-(
>May I make a suggestion? Joerg! Next time you feel like claiming that >Linus Torvalds (or anybody else in person, Alan Cox maybe?) is so to say >sitting around and deliberately tries to complicate your life as >cdrecord developer, then I suggest to take a deep breath and abstain >from such remarks. Not that they are simply not true, such comments are >generally inappropriate for essentially technical forum such as this. If >you want to criticize, criticize technologies and their implementations, >but not persons. If personal comment is unavoidable, explicitly address >the person in question. Same naturally applies to all subscribers to >this forum. A. First: it is Linus who started to be personal against me, so he obviously likes this way of discussion.... Second: I was not critizising the person but the doings. If you read through the Linux Kernel mailing list for long enough, you understand even why: Linus is missing the needed know how to understand what a interface is and in addition he refuses to learn about good programming practice. He e.g. even refuses to have a look at the FreeBSD kernel source in order to understand that my claims about "common proctice" in SCSI programming is (in contrast to his claims) true. Well, it is not bad it a person is missing the background knowledge for a specific topic, but it is bad if such a person likes to decide on such a topic. Let me make an example: A few weeks ago, Jeff Garzik announced a new SCSI interface for ATAPI. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=105392536100002&r=3&w=2 If you read this thread, you see that Linus obviously does not understand the background and likes the implementation to be better than anything before, before giving Jeff a chance. As it should be obvious that a draft of a new implementation method never is made complete just in order to save time, a knowledgeable programmer would be able to understand whether a new idea could give problems in the future. J�rg -- EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) J�rg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] (uni) If you don't have iso-8859-1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) chars I am J"org Schilling URL: http://www.fokus.fraunhofer.de/usr/schilling ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
