On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 3:44 PM, Michael Mol <mike...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 3:37 PM, pk <pete...@coolmail.se> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Happened upon this interview with Linus Torvalds that some of you might >> find interesting (if you haven't seen it already): >> >> http://h30565.www3.hp.com/t5/Feature-Articles/Linus-Torvalds-s-Lessons-on-Software-Development-Management/ba-p/440 > > Yeah, I just saw that. Admittedly, when I saw this section: > > --begin-section-- > > I'll add at this point that this isn't just a programmer problem. I've > seen entire companies get locked into the idea that “perfecting” the > program was everything. They then neglected what the users wanted from > the program, supporting the users and so on. Most of us who've been in > the business for a while have seen this cycle play out over and over > again. > > Expanding on that second point, Torvalds says that's why the Linux > kernel team is “so very anal about the whole ‘no regressions’ thing, > for example. Breaking the user experience in order to ‘fix’ something > is a totally broken concept; you cannot do it. If you break the user > experience, you may feel that you have ‘fixed’ something in the code, > but if you fixed it by breaking the user, you just violated that > second point; you thought the code was more important than the user. > Which is not true.” > > --end-section-- > > I immediately thought of the udev thread.
Kernel and userspace are sometimes different. Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
