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. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]