On Mon, 4 Sep 2017 07:09:08 -0500 o1bigtenor via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
wrote: On 2017-09-03 09:56 PM, Alvin Starr via talk wrote:
True enough but the project could have been picked up by others. Something as complex as a FS needs corporate support, and no company wishes to be associated with a convicted murderer. Reiser was also famously difficult to get along with (a sample of one of his rants is here: https://lkml.org/lkml/2006/7/21/109), which certainly didn't help his code's uptake. I spent about an hour reading through emails around and after the one
On Sun, Sep 3, 2017 at 9:18 PM, Stewart C. Russell via talk <talk@gtalug.org listed. If that's a rant I wonder what you call the ????? that Linus Torvald (hope I have that written right!) does?
hehehe, yeah... the quoted example was so not a rant.. imnsho some of the my top favorite best rants (and there is a list of top 100 rants somewhere) has to include Linus saying: "one more time: you caused the problem, you need to fix it. None of this 'I can do whatever I want, others have to clean up after me' crap." and some by Alan during the ipchains era and the gnu dude. I do not even think any rant of hr ever made it into the top 1000 rants :) 2c Andre