Bug#242866: Closure
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 02:57:05PM +0000, maximilian attems wrote:
> The Debian Kernel Team is guilty of uploading a disjointed kernel.
> For the record Bastian Blank coded the infrastructure for the
> stripping and the stripping itself.
> [chop] In the long run it might be a win for Free Software -
> history will tell. In the short term this is an annoyance for existing
> hardware driver support.
I want to publicly congratulate the entire Kernel team for their
efforts, both on the firmware problem, and all the other issues
that come with dealing with such a large code base. The results
are real and appreciated.
> As expected none of the vocal minority, aka Mr. Nerode and Mr.
> Doolittle, demanding DFSG freeness helped to work out this transition
> nor to cleanup the created mess.
IANADD, and never pretend to be. I help out as much as I can [*],
and if you don't like me acting as a messenger in this case, tough
noogies. I didn't write the DFSG. The real blame here lies with
Linus's historical sloppiness in accepting non-DFSG-free code.
I hear he has improved his process this past couple of years.
- Larry Doolittle
[*] and yes, that includes developing, debugging, and releasing Free
Software, not just complaining. Anyone with two minutes and Google
can confirm that.
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