Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762527AbXHCOWT (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Aug 2007 10:22:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1761738AbXHCOWI (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Aug 2007 10:22:08 -0400 Received: from pascoe.ucs.ed.ac.uk ([129.215.128.240]:61121 "EHLO pascoe.ucs.ed.ac.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760050AbXHCOWH convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Aug 2007 10:22:07 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 2198 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Fri, 03 Aug 2007 10:22:07 EDT From: Alistair John Strachan To: "=?utf-8?b?0JDQvdC00YDRltC5?= =?utf-8?b?INCc0ZbRiNC60L7QstGB0YzQutC40Lk=?=" Subject: Re: Scheduler Situation Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2007 14:45:31 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <192840a00708030616g22d9dd16o95b2620bfe3347a8@mail.gmail.com> <192840a00708030627p11e445fbi66833ca27b39af8e@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <192840a00708030627p11e445fbi66833ca27b39af8e@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200708031445.31968.alistair@devzero.co.uk> X-Edinburgh-Scanned: at pascoe.ucs.ed.ac.uk with MIMEDefang 2.52, Sophie, Sophos Anti-Virus, Clam AntiVirus Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 881 Lines: 21 On Friday 03 August 2007 14:27:30 Андрій Мішковський wrote: > Bad things may happen if Linus gives a right of making decision to > other people (a big group of people). ;) > As you said, Linux is a public OS, so Con's code never will be lost. > That's the base of open source - people come and go, but the code > stays. :) Unfortunately Con undermined this by leaving all kernel development. So unless somebody else is sufficiently motivated to constructively improve SD (and I think we all hope they will, competition is good), it will probably die. -- Cheers, Alistair. 137/1 Warrender Park Road, Edinburgh, UK. - 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/