On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 02:13:37PM -0700, Andrew Lentvorski wrote:
Those things all went into FreeBSD without forking it. However, you are correct in that forking certainly wastes energy.
Linus' argument is that it doesn't. He _encourages_ forking. Every developer should have a fork. That's what he calls distributed development. The difference is to embrace distributed development rather than fear it. David -- KPLUG-List@kernel-panic.org http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list