Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 22 Aug 2000 12:56:32 -0400 | From | "Eric S. Raymond" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Re: Move of input drivers, some word needed from you |
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>: > But the "common code helps" thing is WRONG. Face it. It can hurt. A lot. > And people shouldn't think it is the God of CS.
I think you're mistaken about this. Or, to be more precise, I think your remarkable native talent as an implementor has given you some unhelpful design biases that are only going to be cured by more experience.
I'm fairly sure that experience will prove survivable for the Linux kernel and the rest of us -- but when you say things like the above, I start worrying a bit... -- <a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
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