[ale] [Fwd: BAD NEWS......Linux is leaving!]

Mon Apr 1 12:33:17 EST 2002

Hope it's just 1/04 joke....

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> From: Geoffrey [mailto:esoteric at 3times25.net]
> Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 12:29 PM
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> Subject: [ale] [Fwd: BAD NEWS......Linux is leaving!]
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> Date:   Mon, 01 Apr 2002 00:00:00 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at transmeta.com>
> To: Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org>
> Subject: Linux needs new leadership.
> 
> Fellow hackers,
> 
> For some time I have felt unappreciated by some members of the Linux
> community. Far too many of you like to whine and cry, saying 
> "My patches
> aren't being accepted by Linus, but they are by Alan or Michael!"
> It seems that some of you are too stupid to follow the simple
> instructions that I have made clear on more than one occasion.
> This, combined with the fact that today is my last day at Transmeta,
> has prompted me to consider rediscovering that balance I had 
> in my life
> before you all took my hobby and made it into a mass movement. I have
> not decided who should take over maintenance of the kernel 
> myself, for I
> believe that this decision should be made in a quasi-democratic
> fashion. While democracy has not worked well with this group of people
> before, I am willing to give it one last chance.
> 
> However, I do have some opinions on who should succeed me as leader
> of kernel development. I will provide my opinions below as I am
> entitled to do so. Below is an alphabetical list of my nominations.
> I include a brief explanation of why I nominated them and any concerns
> I may have. You all should do the same for your nominations.
> 
> Alan Cox: Alan has done a spectacular job of maintaining the 
> 2.2 branch
>     ever since I embarked on the development branch. He would 
> have been an
>     automatic choice for this job, except for his childish refusal to
>     travel to the US, where all the real kernel hackers hang out.
>     Marcello has proven to me, however, that you do not need to live
>     in a technology-rich country such as the US to be a leader of
>     kernel development.
> 
> Matt Dillon: Whenever someone moans about the 2.4 VM fiasco,
>     I think to myself, "I wish Matt hadn't left the Linux kernel
>     development for FreeBSD!" I believe that if Matt were to be chosen
>     as leader, we would have had a sane and working VM on par with
>     FreeBSD's months ago. While he has little leadership 
> experience, he
>     is a member of FreeBSD-core, a position which certainly demands
>     respect.
> 
> Eric S. Raymond: Being leader of kernel development involves
>     fielding a significant amount of media attention. ESR has shown
>     on many occasions that he can talk shit and still sound just as
>     convincing as anyone on this list, all the time being completely
>     oblivious to any contrasting viewpoints. While his
>     kernel-configuration-adventure-game contribution to Linux just
>     screams out "worthless bloat", I must admit to having enjoyed
>     many a lonely night playing the game. If he could lay a similar
>     interface over gdb, I'm sure that more kernel hackers would
>     actually debug their work before submitting it.
> 
> Richard M. Stallman: RMS has an exceptional track record in the
>     open-source field, being largely responsible for my favorite text
>     editor, compiler, and debugger. No other open-source hacker has
>     come as close as he has to replicating the integration available
>     with Microsoft Visual C++ 6 years ago. I fully endorse him as a
>     candidate, assuming he's willing to drop his puerile "GNU/Linux"
>     ego stroking.
> 
> Theo de Raadt: Theo is an exceptional candidate. Not only is he a
>     more than adequate hacker; he attracts exactly the type of people
>     to OpenBSD that he wants, and will jettison those who are 
> not up to
>     the task. While purging out all the less-than-adequate hackers
>     in the Linux project will inevitably attract negative publicity
>     from Slashdot and other "community" sites where these 
> feeble hackers
>     hang out, it will no doubt strengthen Linux in the future. Just
>     look at what Theo's strong leadership has done for OpenBSD! He
>     turned around the worthless "research project" that was NetBSD and
>     made it an enterprise-class firewall system. I can only imagine
>     the effect his Midas touch could have on the Linux kernel.
> 
> You have until the end of April 1, 23:59 Pacific Time to submit your
> nominations to the list. The most nominated person will become the
> leader
> of kernel development. I will examine the list of nominations and,
> assuming that the winner wants the job, I will hand full 
> control over to
> them. I know that this is short notice, but knowing how 
> obsessively most
> of you check your inboxes, I figure you should have more than adequate
> time to submit your recommendations. The decision will be final and no
> discussion will be considered after it has been made, so choose
> carefully.
> 
> Thank you.
> 
>                   Linus
> 
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> Until later: Geoffrey		esoteric at 3times25.net
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