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From: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.name>
To: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [Evms-devel] Re: Linux v2.5.42
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 01:30:21 +0200
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Am Dienstag, 15. Oktober 2002 01:16 schrieb Alexander Viro:
> On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> > > Also, let me define the phrase "better off" to mean "better off W.R.T.
> > > design, architecture, overall code quality, abstractions in the right
> > > place, etc etc", and not to mean politically, as in, more users.
> >
> > While these are important choices, Linux is an OS for practical use
> > and needs to meet some minimum of necessary features.
>
> Come back when you are in position to make demands.  Until then, feel
> free to bugger off.

Demands? That was an oppinion, not a demand. And a little civility would
suit you just fine.

> Arrogant demands are _not_ going to impress anybody - $DEITY witness,
> arrogance is not in short supply around here and with waay better
> credentials to back it up.
>
> If you are willing to help EVMS folks - go ahead and offer them your help
> in cleaning the codebase up.  _That_ can change situation.  Public
> wankathlon will earn you a warm spot in killfiles and fail to affect any
> merges in any direction.

I did improvements to it to the best of my abilities, which as I freely admit
lesser than yours.
If a short civilised discussion earns me a place in your killfiles I'll happily
reside there.

	Oliver

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