Re: what's next for the linux kernel?

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Wed Oct 05 2005 - 08:40:37 EST


On Wed, Oct 05 2005, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 02:31:14PM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
>
> > [i know better criticism and accusations deleted and not commented on]
>
> > Why is that so hard to understand? Succesful contributions start at the
> > technical level, always have.
>
> then we will have to agree to disagree, because i believe that
> successful contributions start with "what creative thing shall
> we do now / what problem shall we tackle today in a creative
> way?" and work their way down to the technical level, which,
> as you rightly point out, requires successful _technical_
> contributions.

It's not my opinion, I'm stating historical fact. I honestly can't
remember when a succesfull contribution was made based on a long
non-technical thread. I can, however, remember oodles of cases where the
reverse is quite true.

--
Jens Axboe

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