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Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2001 21:13:09 +0100
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Henning Schmiedehausen <hps@intermeta.de>
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Subject: Re: Coding style - a non-issue
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Hi!

> > Sigh...  Ironic that _you_ recommend somebody to grow up - I would expect
> > the level of naivety you'd demonstrated from a CS grad who'd never worked
> > on anything beyond his toy project.  Not from somebody adult.
> 
> You're welcome.
> 
> I'm willing to give you a bet: You put up such a "hall of shame" and we
> will see what comes first:
> 
> a) media echo that "linux core developers start insulting code
> committers"
> 
> or
> 
> b) vendors start cleaning up their code.

Question is... what hurts us more. Bad press or bad code? I guess bad
code is worse...
								Pavel
-- 
"I do not steal MS software. It is not worth it."
                                -- Pavel Kankovsky
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