Chris Mason wrote:
> 
> On Friday, September 07, 2001 11:45:31 AM +0400 Hans Reiser
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > It is worth noting that what started it off was:
> >
> >       It all started with a small patch to the journaling flash filesystem
> > (JFFS) code which caused the following to be printed at system boot:
> >
> >                                 Portions (C) 2000, 2001 Red Hat, Inc.
> 
> Well, yes and no.  The resulting thread made the rest of his opinions on
> sponsorship messages, copyrights, and any other non-critical messages very
> clear.
> 
> You are taking a common sense approach to making the messages less painful,
> but the underlying assumption is that enough people read these messages to
> make it worth the flames/bad press.  This is untrue ;-)
> 
> Putting them into fsck isn't as bad, and more people will see them.
> 
> -chris

It is funny what makes people happy.  Ok, I can see that it really will make
people happy.  I laugh, and we do it.

Let us please review the faq to remove any insults to distros that run fsck on a
journaling file system, and put sponsorship messages in fsck.:-):-):-)

Mutant Hairless Monkey #8,432,132,987

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