On Sun, May 03, 2009 at 11:49:29PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > On Sun, May 03, 2009 at 10:42:52PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > >> The only reason I can see for not ultimately talking about things publicly > >> is if this is one company making shady deals with another company in which > >> case I do not see why the maintenance burden for those decision should > >> fall on the linux community as a whole. > > > > Another reason is that past experience would indicate that anything we > > say in public and and will be used against us. > > Which is a fine reason to be careful what you say, and to say > reasonable things. I am glad you agree. > It is not a reason to submit a patch without > justification. > > If the reason for submitting a patch is not sufficiently good to be > held to then it appears insufficient to merge the patch. > > Why should the commit to a position at your urging that you aren't > willing to commit to? I am not sure that I correctly parsed these three sentences, but the justification should be pretty clear to anyone who has been paying any attention at all to recent industry news. Thanx, Paul -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
