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  kahwee 2:42 am on August 2, 2009 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: alan cox, linus torvalds, linux (6), open source (9), tty   

  Alan Cox leaves Linux as TTY maintainer: http://www.itwire.com/content/view/26635/1231/

  He got pissed off with Linus Travolds.

  I’ve been working on fixing it. I have spent a huge amount of time
  working on the tty stuff trying to gradually get it sane without breaking
  anything and fixing security holes along the way as they came up. I spent
  the past two evenings working on the tty regressions.

  However I’ve had enough. If you think that problem is easy to fix you fix
  it.

  Have fun.

  I’ve zapped the tty merge queue so anyone with patches for the tty layer
  can send them to the new maintainer.

  http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/7/28/375

   

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  uzyn 12:43 pm on July 26, 2009 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: linus torvalds, linux (6), microsoft (19)   

  If your idol says hating Microsoft is uncool, you had better listen.

  Slashdot: Linus Calls Microsoft Hatred “a Disease”

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    kahwee 11:54 pm on July 26, 2009 Permalink

    Smart asked Torvalds if Microsoft was contributing the code to benefit the Linux community or Microsoft. ‘I agree that it’s driven by selfish reasons, but that’s how all open source code gets written! We all “scratch our own itches.”

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    ‘So complaining about the fact that Microsoft picked a selfish area to work on is just silly. Of course they picked an area that helps them. That’s the point of open source — the ability to make the code better for your particular needs, whoever the “your” in question happens to be.’”

    Selfish? I don’t really selfishness here. For the first time something is being shared, calling the landmark move “selfish” is not appropriate.

    I don’t think Linus is happy about it, deep down he’s probably hating it but he can’t do a thing. Not accepting the code would be a major boo-boo for open source, they have to accept it anyway.

    Linus is like a baker who ate someone else’s piece of cake and insists a little more milk would be better.