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Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2001 15:18:00 -0200 (BRST)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
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Subject: Re: Coding style - a non-issue
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On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Rik van Riel wrote:
> >
> > I'm very interested too, though I'll have to agree with Larry
> > that Linux really isn't going anywhere in particular and seems
> > to be making progress through sheer luck.
>
> Hey, that's not a bug, that's a FEATURE!

Don't forget the fact that 2.4 is the first kernel you
managed to get stable under high load since 1.2.

Both 2.0 and 2.2 didn't get stable until Alan took over
and Alan's 2.4 fork got stable some 4 months before your
2.4 tree got stable.

I think you've pretty much proven how well random
development works.

regards,

Rik
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