Messages in this thread | | | From | "Jonathan" <> | Subject | Re: Ken Thompson interview in IEEE Computer magazine (fwd) | Date | Thu, 13 May 1999 11:50:51 -0500 |
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Can there be an OS without sucking code? What hardware will it be compatible with? There would be a lot less sucking code in most OSs if hardware did what it was supposed to in terms of implementation. I destroy a bad NE2k clone to help the cause. -----Original Message----- From: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu> To: Nat Lanza <magus@cs.cmu.edu> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu <linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu> Date: Tuesday, May 04, 1999 1:55 PM Subject: Re: Ken Thompson interview in IEEE Computer magazine (fwd)
> > >On 4 May 1999, Nat Lanza wrote: > >> John Hayward-Warburton <linux@billabong.demon.co.uk> writes: >> >> > I absolutely agree. Let's treat this man with a huge amount of >> > respect. Perhaps he's read old code? Seen badly set-up systems? Not >> > got much first-hand experience of the Linux kernel? Maybe his >> > interview was badly sub-edited by the publisher (it occasionally >> > happens)? >> >> I'm pretty amazed at the responses to this thread. Can you folks >> really not take criticism any better than this? Someone who thinks >> Linux code is uneven and shoddy in places must obviously be sad, >> bitter, and misinformed? > >Sorry, you've misread it. What I said is that getting such comments is >bitter and sad. Especially from Ken. As for sucking code - heck, *indeed* >we have it. Read l-k for a while and you'll see rants on that very topic >*here*. > > >- >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in >the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu >Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
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