Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] an open letter to Linus re: low latency
From: Jay Ts (jay_AT_toltec.metran.cx)
Date: Fri Jun 23 2000 - 03:17:10 EEST
Jason wrote:
>
> <<I /am/ a native speaker, and it sounds a little weird to me, too.
> Otherwise, it's a great letter.>>
>
> I'm guessing he used it in reference to the Roman concept of a dictator:
> a patriot who exercised absolute power in a time of great distress to the
> end of defending the Republic.
It is no secret that our "fearless leader" Linus, in his never-ending
quest for World Domination, does in fact maintain (sometimes benevolent)
dictatorial power over the kernel source tree. When new code goes in,
its acceptance is not determine by popular vote. If Linus likes it, then
he includes it.
Except when he goes on vaction, and Alan Cox takes over the job. That's
how a lot of code got into Linux even though Linus didn't want it. We
can thank Alan for sneaking in a lot of good stuff!
From the Linux fortune cookie data file:
> The day people think linux would be better served by somebody else (FSF
> being the natural alternative), I'll "abdicate". I don't think that
> it's something people have to worry about right now - I don't see it
> happening in the near future. I enjoy doing linux, even though it does
> mean some work, and I haven't gotten any complaints (some almost timid
> reminders about a patch I have forgotten or ignored, but nothing
> negative so far).
>
> Don't take the above to mean that I'll stop the day somebody complains:
> I'm thick-skinned (Lasu, who is reading this over my shoulder commented
> that "thick-HEADED is closer to the truth") enough to take some abuse.
> If I weren't, I'd have stopped developing linux the day ast ridiculed me
> on c.o.minix. What I mean is just that while linux has been my baby so
> far, I don't want to stand in the way if people want to make something
> better of it (*).
>
> Linus
>
> (*) Hey, maybe I could apply for a saint-hood from the Pope. Does
> somebody know what his email-address is? I'm so nice it makes you puke.
(Taken from Linus's reply to someone worried about the future of Linux)
- Jay Ts
jay_AT_jayts.cx
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