Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Source Code Release of NWFS 2.0 for 2.2/2.3/2.4 | Date | Tue, 08 Feb 2000 23:16:13 -0300 | From | Horst von Brand <> |
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"Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@timpanogas.com> said: > This is what happens when a bunch of 20+ years old guys suddenly get > rich. It's the Marc Andressan Syndrome at NetScape all over again, it's > like they're all 18 years old, and they just got their first piece of > ass or something -- it drives them crazy, then they go nuts -- then > comes the arrogance, conceit, and "I'll get you" behavior. Look how > Alan reacted ("I'll get you Merkey").
That isn't very polite, is it.
> This isn't the Alan Cox I used to know -- the one that went out of his > way to put Linux first and was the good samaritan of Linux Kernel. I > think all the money is making folks a little nuts, and we are seeing the > natural fallout of this -- hell, these guys are all under 30 (most of > them). I think Linux is close to the point that it will fragment and > break into many smaller efforts. I can feel it starting.
Sorry to contradict you. The head hackers on linux-kernel are behaving more or less the same, modulo more work (linux is not a small club of developers anymore, and l-k gets more than it's fair share of clueless posts; I'd assume they are getting even more crap).
> ".... Success can test a man's metal more surely than the strongest > adverary ..."
Yep. Finest metal, from what I see here. Can't say the same of people that start badmouthing everybody in sight when things don't go exactly as they wish. -- Horst von Brand vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl Casilla 9G, Viña del Mar, Chile +56 32 672616
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