On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, Herouth Maoz wrote: > On 2002 January 20 ,Sunday 23:49, Official Flamer/Cabal NON-Leader > wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 11:42:24PM +0200, tal amir wrote: > > > no, if the washington post wrote about it, then it MUST be true.. > > > one thing i agree with : OMG! ;) > > > > What I do not understand is what the fuck we care? Did they buy the > > sodding kernel? Linus? Rik? Alan? Dave? Wot!?
Alan is on RH's payroll. (although from that POV, Connectiva would have been a better target now) gcc is developed in RH But I agree with the general "no panic" tone. > > How about the following scenario: > > RH/AOL wants to patch the kernel. The patch has to go through Linus. > He is not on AOL payroll, so he gives it the same treatment as he > gives patches from SuSE or from you. > > RH/AOL is not happy. It tries to push. Does not succeed, forks out > its own Kernel (yes, making the source available as per GPL, but no > longer asking Linus what he thinks about anything). Been there. SuSE (and later mandrake and other distros) got resierfs support into their kernel long before linus has accepted it. In fact, one of the reasons it was accepted was that "it seems to work well already" [due to a large userbase]. The same thing is happening now with XFS. Alsa has long been added to distros, and it is still not part of the kernel. This is a complete subsystem. In addition, I believe that the same thing is happening with the VM code right now (dig into that thread, and see what VM code redhat uses). If the modification is good enough, others will use it, no matter what linus says. -- Tzafrir Cohen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
