Let me preface this by noting another nice feature of FOSS development
is the free advice that turns up in ones inbox, often enumerating the
ways one sucks, but not always. I heard it wasn't always anyway.
Your Suck wants Freedom!
Stuff has to get floated and discussed, no matter how comforting the
idea of a leather-clad jackbooted "all wise" Design Sadist may feel to
some folks. As I said I don't think anybody is "all wise" on all the
layers we deal with.
All I'm saying is that we need a bit of a cattle prod to keep you guys
in line.
*shrug* I can imagine designs that are done entirely in kernel space
for
some reason. This is just pure prejudice on your part to imagine a
race
of userspace overlords. Although if they had a sexy uniform and
looked
prettier than the current userspace guys, I might be convinced to go
along with this.
If they weren't guys, I'd be standing in line with you.
Like I said about a thousand times an actual spec for this product, so
long as it was sane and self-consistent with its goals is the missing
ingredient. Generally if people discuss technical stuff without
prejudice and insecurity they can quickly reach a globally
acceptable way.
Generally you're right, and I concur: an actual spec would be nice.
;
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Jay Vaughan
