From: Nikita Danilov <nikita@clusterfs.com>
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Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2005 21:15:57 +0400
To: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@lkcl.net>
Cc: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@mbligh.org>, Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
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Subject: Re: what's next for the linux kernel?
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Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton writes:

[...]

 > 
 >  assuming that you have an intelligent programmer (or some really good
 >  and working parallelisation tools) who really knows his threads?

Well, I'd like to have a hardware with CAS-n operation for one
thing. But what would this buy us? Having different kernel algorithms
for x86 and mythical cas-n-able hardware is not viable.

[...]

 > 
 >  can i invite you to consider, when replying to these lists, to consider
 >  instead of treating it as a location where you can piss over anyone
 >  that you do not believe to be in any way your equal or in fact the equal
 >  of anyone, 

As this self-contradictory (unless equivalence is not reflective in your
world) description is not the way I treat "these lists", I'll --instead
of pointing out to errors in your proposal-- follow (with improvements)
your advice, and re-interpret it the way I want:

 > 	* i do/don't get what this guy is saying.

Indeed. But maybe this is at least partially because "this guy" fails to
abide to the elementary rules of grammar?

One who really wants to communicate with other people, follows common
conventions that exist specifically on purpose of making communication
possible. If you want to engage into a discussion with other people, you
should put aside considerations of your own convenience or habit, and
stick to the common protocol. It's that simple.

[...]

 > 
 >  so i sent some messages saying "i think the kernel developers could be
 >  wrong in their design strategy" so FRIGGIN what?

Pray, do tell me you typed this without a shift key. I'd very much do
like to not destroy the very essence of 20 years of accumulated
experience.

 > 
 >  or shut up, or add my email address to your killfile.

Please do this with my address in exchange: suddenly, I am
overwhelmed with a glimmering presentiment of sharing this location with
a lot of worthy people.

Nikita.
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