On 28.12.2012 00:47, Dominic Evans wrote:
On 27 Dec 2012, at 23:41, fnu <vdr@auktion.hostingkunde.de mailto:vdr@auktion.hostingkunde.de> wrote:
Linux wouldn't have been that succesfull, if Linus Torvalds would not had an ear to the needs of others, even business needs ...
A Christmas message from Linus – “IF YOU BREAK USERSPACE I HATE YOU AND YOU ARE A TERRIBLE PERSON”
Well, Linus apparently has very strong feelings about this. However, nowhere in that posting does it say
IF YOU BREAK USERSPACE I HATE YOU AND YOU ARE A TERRIBLE PERSON
So did *you* (Dominic) just make that up? I'm asking because your posting looks just like a direct quotation from Linus, and I have a hard time imagining a renowned person like Linus Torvalds to say something like that.
Not breaking userspace is, of course, the right thing to do in a *stable* version of any software. But if this means that you can't do anything new in a *developer* version, then I guess this means we should rather stop doing any further development and just sit on what we have. But that would cause people complaining about a lack of innovation, I guess...
Klaus