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Subject: Re: A modest proposal -- We need a patch penguin
To: andrew@pimlott.ne.mediaone.net (Andrew Pimlott)
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 15:10:40 +0000 (GMT)
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> Linus).  Unless Linus's throughput increases dramatically, the
> integrator's delta will grow until it reaches that bound.  At that
> point, the integrator has to drop patches (or give up!).  How do you
> get around this?

Historically at that point the old maintainer is overthrown 8) Look at
Minix versus Linux, gcc versus egcs etc

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