On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 12:51 PM, Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 12:35:13PM -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > > No the core of any mission is some sort of religion and belief. > > Faith maybe - not religion > > > > Politics is the policy of getting and using power over other beings. > > And religion to quote Dune is what happens when faith meets politics. > > I was just about to correct myself with that. Sorry for the mis-speaking... which brings me to my favorite Goodies episode: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wacky_Wales.. where faith and rugby intersect. > > spin with this kernel in it. What people have said is "If you want > > more support from core people, this is what we would like so we can > > help you." > > Bingo - the kernel project works by keeping everyone happy. So you fix the > firmware problem by making the embedded people happy (don't waste ram), > the developers happy (stop mucking up my git tree), the vendors happy (we > can ship firmware update packages sanely) the end users happy (better > performance, not noticing the change) and the free software extremists happy > ("I don't install proprietary firmware"). You don't make progress by making > them all hate you. On the other hand, we haven't had a good martyr lately. I -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- CSIRT/Linux System Administrator How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice" -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
