Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] ioctl SIOCGIFNETMASK: ip alias bug 2.4.9 and 2.2.19 | Date | Thu, 6 Sep 2001 15:59:58 -0400 (EDT) | From | (Wietse Venema) |
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Alan Cox: > > Soldiers are marching down the street. The mother of one of those > > soldiers is ever so proud. All the other guys are marching out of > > step. Her son is the only one who does it right. > > > > That's what it looks like for a person who writes Internet software > > that aims to work on a wide variety of platforms. > > I think you have the metaphor wrong. The older API is a bit like the > cavalry charging into battle at the start of world war one. It may have been > how everyone did it but they guys with the "newfangled, really not how it > should be done, definitely not cricket" machine guns got the last laugh
Keep your superiority complex out of my mailbox, thank you.
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