Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261820AbTKMQpe (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Nov 2003 11:45:34 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264370AbTKMQpe (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Nov 2003 11:45:34 -0500 Received: from auto-matic.ca ([216.209.85.42]:54238 "EHLO mark.mielke.cc") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261820AbTKMQpc (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Nov 2003 11:45:32 -0500 Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 11:43:46 -0500 From: Mark Mielke To: Larry McVoy , Andrew Walrond , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: kernel.bkbits.net off the air Message-ID: <20031113164346.GA27860@mark.mielke.cc> References: <200311112021.34631.andrew@walrond.org> <20031111235215.GA22314@work.bitmover.com> <200311131010.27315.andrew@walrond.org> <20031113162712.GA2462@work.bitmover.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031113162712.GA2462@work.bitmover.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1545 Lines: 33 On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 08:27:13AM -0800, Larry McVoy wrote: > I'm starting to (finally) learn that there are a small number of people > who complain loudly (not you Andrew, I just happened to hit reply to your > mail) but they in no way represent the majority of the people doing work. > As far as I can tell, most people are using BK and if there wasn't any > whining they'd be content with that and what they'd really like is for > BK itself to improve (*). Linus doesn't get any benefit from one more > ... Larry: You tried to get it working, and keep it working. To me, this is more than enough effort. The whiners (yes, whiners - every participant has the opportunity of *doing* something - choosing to complain and demand that others *do* something is whining in my books) are an unfortunate fact of life. mark -- mark@mielke.cc/markm@ncf.ca/markm@nortelnetworks.com __________________________ . . _ ._ . . .__ . . ._. .__ . . . .__ | Neighbourhood Coder |\/| |_| |_| |/ |_ |\/| | |_ | |/ |_ | | | | | | \ | \ |__ . | | .|. |__ |__ | \ |__ | Ottawa, Ontario, Canada One ring to rule them all, one ring to find them, one ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them... http://mark.mielke.cc/ - 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/