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SubjectRe: Coding style - a non-issue
Hi!

> >> Al, -><- close to setting up a Linux Kernel Hall of Shame - one with names of
> >> wankers (both individual and coprorat ones) responsible, their code and
> >> commentary on said code...
>
> >Please, please, please, I'm begging you, please do this. It's the only way
> >people learn quickly. Being nice is great, but nothing works faster than
> >a cold shower of public humiliation :-)
>
> Cool. I can really see it. "foo inc." releases a GPL driver for Linux
> and gets publically humiliated in the "linux source code hall of
> shame". Perfect. I can hear the laughter from Redmond over here (and
> it is 12000km away).
>
> Press release:
>
> "If you support Linux, you may get flamed and humiliated in public for
> doing so. Don't do it."

And what? Bad driver is better than proprietary hardware, still good
driver is better than good driver.

And yes, I'd like to see that hall of shame.

Pavel
--
"I do not steal MS software. It is not worth it."
-- Pavel Kankovsky
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