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    SubjectRe: 2.0.31 : please!
    On Wed, 16 Jul 1997, Daniel G. Link wrote:
    > Hi,
    >
    > I find the handling of criticism in this thread disturbing.

    Constructive criticism gets handled much better.

    > Of course, Linux is great. Of course, people are making great efforts to
    > make it as good as possible. But how are programmers going to be made
    > aware of conceptual weeknesses if it is only allowed to praise them?

    That's not true. Noone said that. Don't get rhetorical.

    > To put it very bluntly: In order for it to flourish, it has to be possible
    > to point out weaknesses in free software without the programmers
    > threatening to commit suicide and hundreds of yes-men jumping to their
    > defense, shouting "kill the whiner".

    There's a difference in between "there seems to be a bug"/"it could be
    made faster by.." and "get your butt up and release that patch".

    > What good is free software if you aren't supposed to criticise it because
    > it's free?

    Again not true.

    > There are users out there. These people will get the concept that there
    > are 2.0.X and 2.1.X kernels out there, but they will not understand why
    > they shouldn't use the newest of the "stable" kernels.

    And why shouldn't they?

    > At least for me and some other people, 2.0.30 and 2.1.[28-42] have been
    > especially bad kernels. My first kernel was 0.99.12. Never before the
    > above mentioned kernels have I had kernels that don't even compile or
    > freeze the system within the first five minutes.

    I'm sure there have been other not-so-stable 2.0.x kernels.

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