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Quote: Licensing Questions

May 4, 2008 - 9:37am
Submitted by Jeremy on May 4, 2008 - 9:37am.

"Licensing questions would be better off asked to lawyers, not programmers. Would you ask a random group of lawyers on a public mailing list medical questions and trust their responses?"

— Greg KH, in an April 29th, 2008 message on the Linux Kernel mailing list.

Quote: Typos and Spellos and Grammaros

May 1, 2008 - 9:36am
Submitted by Jeremy on May 1, 2008 - 9:36am.

"I don't like to merge patches which fix typos and spellos and grammaros in comments, simply because I'd be buried in the things. I do take such fixes for user-visible text (Documentation/, kerneldoc comments and printks)."

— Andrew Morton, in an April 14th, 2008 message on the Linux Kernel mailing list.

Quote: A Better Select

April 30, 2008 - 6:13pm
Submitted by Jeremy on April 30, 2008 - 6:13pm.

"Quite honestly poll() is a better select(), even if it came out of AT&T."

— Theo de Raadt, in an April 19th, 2008 message on the OpenBSD -misc mailing list.

Quote: Oh, No, Wait

April 28, 2008 - 4:45pm
Submitted by Jeremy on April 28, 2008 - 4:45pm.

"It's because I hate you. Oh, no, wait. It's because you didn't send the patch to me."

— Linus Torvalds, in an April 26th, 2008 message on the Linux Kernel mailing list.

Quote: Every Device of Atheros Supported

April 25, 2008 - 11:42am
Submitted by Jeremy on April 25, 2008 - 11:42am.

"I write to you to inform you that I have decided to join Atheros as a full time employee, as a Software Engineer, to help them with their goals and mission to get every device of Atheros supported upstream in the Linux kernel."

— Luis Rodriguez, in an April 16th, 2008 message on the ath5k development mailing list.

Quote: A Developing Bureacracy

April 24, 2008 - 4:27pm
Submitted by Jeremy on April 24, 2008 - 4:27pm.

"We've got ourselves a developing bureaucracy. As in 'more and more ways of generating activity without doing anything even remotely useful'. Complete with tendency to operate in the ways that make sense only to bureaucracy in question and an ever-growing set of bylaws..."

— Al Viro, in an April 14th, 2008 message on the Linux Kernel mailing list.

Quote: How Was It Done?

April 23, 2008 - 9:03pm
Submitted by Jeremy on April 23, 2008 - 9:03pm.

"Who did the reverse-engineering, and how was it done? Please make us confident that we won't get our butts sued off or something."

— Andrew Morton, in an April 13th, 2008 message on the Linux Kernel mailing list.

Quote: WPA Support In OpenBSD

April 18, 2008 - 10:59am
Submitted by Jeremy on April 18, 2008 - 10:59am.

"In concrete terms, this adds support for WPA-PSK and WPA2-PSK protocols, both in station and hostap modes."

— Damien Bergamini, in an April 16th, 2008 message on the OpenBSD source changes mailing list.

Quote: Today's New kvm Architecture

April 16, 2008 - 4:46pm
Submitted by Jeremy on April 16, 2008 - 4:46pm.

"Today's new kvm architecture is ia64, aka Itanium 2. Like s390, it is only provided in the git tree, not in the tarball. Windows and Linux guests are supported."

— Avi Kivity, in an April 16th, 2008 message on the Linux Kernel mailing list.

Quote: Get A Free Beer

April 15, 2008 - 10:30pm
Submitted by Jeremy on April 15, 2008 - 10:30pm.

"Anyone who can correctly guess the method with which i found the exact place that corrupted memory will get a free beer next time we meet :-)"

— Ingo Molnar, in an April 15th, 2008 message on the Linux Kernel mailing list.

Quote: Common Convention

April 15, 2008 - 12:18pm
Submitted by Jeremy on April 15, 2008 - 12:18pm.

"While we are talking about conventions, would you mind keeping lines in your mail shorter than 79 columns to avoid wraparounds in quoted text? Unlike your proposal, that one actually _is_ a common convention..."

— Al Viro, in an April 13th, 2008 message on the Linux Kernel mailing list.

Quote: Not Investing the Necessary Time

April 14, 2008 - 12:34pm
Submitted by Jeremy on April 14, 2008 - 12:34pm.

"Every single argument you make that supports why you should not be investing the necessary time into the bug applies equally to the very developers you are so quick to quip at and want help from."

— David Miller, in an April 11th, 2008 message on the Linux Kernel mailing list.

Quote: Trying to Herd a Million Mad Monkeys

April 12, 2008 - 2:47pm
Submitted by Jeremy on April 12, 2008 - 2:47pm.

"This is poor old me trying to herd a million mad monkeys, only one escaped."

— Andrew Morton, in an April 12th, 2008 message on the Linux Kernel mailing list.

Quote: The Burden of Debugging

April 11, 2008 - 6:01pm
Submitted by Jeremy on April 11, 2008 - 6:01pm.

"The way I see it, the burden of debugging and fixing bugs is mainly on the developers of the code that breaks. You can't blame users for using the code, triggering bugs and then reporting the breakage. Users who report bugs are doing us all a great service regardless of their ability or willingness to do more work than just the initial report."

— Jesper Juhl, in an April 10th, 2008 message on the Linux Kernel mailing list.

Quote: Releasing With Pending Issues

April 10, 2008 - 10:36pm
Submitted by Jeremy on April 10, 2008 - 10:36pm.

"We've always had some pending/unresolved issues, and I think that as our tracking gets better, there's likely to be more of them. A number of bug-reports are either hard to reproduce (often including from the reporter) or end up without updates etc. So yes, I do end up releasing with pending issues, although I often try to get a gut feel for what kind of severity we're talking about and not release with *big* pending issues."

— Linus Torvalds, in an April 8th, 2008 message on the Linux Kernel mailing list.

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