Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261908AbTITQHh (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 Sep 2003 12:07:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261909AbTITQHh (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 Sep 2003 12:07:37 -0400 Received: from h80ad25d0.async.vt.edu ([128.173.37.208]:32385 "EHLO turing-police.cc.vt.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261908AbTITQHg (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 Sep 2003 12:07:36 -0400 Message-Id: <200309201607.h8KG7GQN008332@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.6.3 04/04/2003 with nmh-1.0.4+dev To: Bernd Schmidt Cc: Larry McVoy , Andrea Arcangeli , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Fix for wrong OOM killer trigger? In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 20 Sep 2003 13:22:42 BST." From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: <20030919191613.36750de3.bless@tm.uka.de> <20030919192544.GC1312@velociraptor.random> <20030919203538.D1919@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20030919200117.GE1312@velociraptor.random> <20030919205220.GA19830@work.bitmover.com> <20030920033153.GA1452@velociraptor.random> <20030920043026.GA10836@work.bitmover.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_-1869203396P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 12:07:16 -0400 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1393 Lines: 38 --==_Exmh_-1869203396P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 13:22:42 BST, Bernd Schmidt said: > Thank you for demonstrating exactly _why_ closed source software is bad. > Your posts clearly show that with a closed-source solution, you put > yourself at the mercy of a single vendor, and have to put up with whatever > demands and threats he feels like making. Larry has on several occasions posted explaining why at the current time, he has to make the difficult choice between keeping it closed source and actually paying his programmers. The open-source zealots are not going to make any friends by beating up on people who aren't in a position to do anything. You write Larry a big enough check, it'll be open-source by Wednesday. The only problem here is that nobody is writing Larry a check... --==_Exmh_-1869203396P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQE/bHszcC3lWbTT17ARAnTYAJ9UBXYCEJuLu/TR+K3A0i5BFL+z0QCfRDyx bVEiPsKGHbyNxpD2UMGGOsQ= =W5sc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_-1869203396P-- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/