Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2005 16:44:40 +0100
From: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
To: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@lkcl.net>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: what's next for the linux kernel?
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On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 12:10:50PM +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
>  oh go on: i promise i'll even subscribe to it.  and lots of other
>  people will, too [won't we, folks YEERRRRS there you go, dave, see?]

So why don't you run it on your own box?

>  we want the _right_ kind of attention, and _you_ need somewhere to
>  kindly but firmly push the people who are a bit brighter than kernel
>  newbies but who still talk 19-to-the-dozen without posting a patch.

Stop insulting kernel newbies.  There is a difference between "starting
to learn subject" and "picking buzzwords vaguely related to subject and
playing a Markov chain".  And the latter does _not_ mean being brighter,
no matter how much new-age bullshit you spin around it.
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