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Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 13:14:28 -0600
From: Shawn <core@enodev.com>
To: Larry McVoy <lm@work.bitmover.com>, Patrick Finnegan <pat@purdueriots.com>,
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Subject: Re: What's left over.
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On 11/01, Larry McVoy said something like:
> On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 11:16:20AM -0500, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
> > On Fri, 1 Nov 2002, Alexander Viro wrote:
> > > It's not a fscking public service.  Linus has full control over his
> > > tree.  You have equally full control over your tree.  Linus can't
> > > tell you what patches to apply in your tree.  You can't tell Linus
> > > what patches he should apply to his.
> > 
> > I'm sorry it _is_ a public service.  Once tens of people started
> > contributing to it, it became one.  
> 
> Pat, the public service that Linus provides is doing exactly what he does.
> He's acting as a filter.  You may or may not agree with the things he

cat name-your.patch | Linus --please-dont-delete-your-inbox-again

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