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SubjectRe: [PLEASE-TESTME] Zerocopy networking patch, 2.4.0-1
On 10 Jan 2001, at 15:32, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> Latin 101. Literally "about taste no argument".

Or "about taste no argument there is" if you add the 'est', which
still makes sense in english, in a twisted (convoluted as apposed to
'bad' or 'sick') way.

Q.E.D.

> I suspect that it _should_ be "De gustibus non disputandum est", but
> it's been too many years. That adds the required verb ("is") to make it
> a full sentence.
>
> In English: "There is no arguing taste".
>
> Linus


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