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    As today is the first of April (says April fool day), so I choose Tovald
    Linus as my leader.

    Cheers,
    Jirat.

    p.s. Is somebody laughing?

    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@transmeta.com>
    To: "Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
    Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 03:00 PM
    Subject: Linux needs new leadership.


    > Fellow hackers,
    >
    > For some time I have felt unappreciated by some members of the Linux
    > community. Far too many of you like to whine and cry, saying "My patches
    > aren't being accepted by Linus, but they are by Alan or Michael!"
    > It seems that some of you are too stupid to follow the simple
    > instructions that I have made clear on more than one occasion.
    > This, combined with the fact that today is my last day at Transmeta,
    > has prompted me to consider rediscovering that balance I had in my life
    > before you all took my hobby and made it into a mass movement. I have
    > not decided who should take over maintenance of the kernel myself, for I
    > believe that this decision should be made in a quasi-democratic
    > fashion. While democracy has not worked well with this group of people
    > before, I am willing to give it one last chance.
    >
    > However, I do have some opinions on who should succeed me as leader
    > of kernel development. I will provide my opinions below as I am
    > entitled to do so. Below is an alphabetical list of my nominations.
    > I include a brief explanation of why I nominated them and any concerns
    > I may have. You all should do the same for your nominations.
    >
    > Alan Cox: Alan has done a spectacular job of maintaining the 2.2 branch
    > ever since I embarked on the development branch. He would have been an
    > automatic choice for this job, except for his childish refusal to
    > travel to the US, where all the real kernel hackers hang out.
    > Marcello has proven to me, however, that you do not need to live
    > in a technology-rich country such as the US to be a leader of
    > kernel development.
    >
    > Matt Dillon: Whenever someone moans about the 2.4 VM fiasco,
    > I think to myself, "I wish Matt hadn't left the Linux kernel
    > development for FreeBSD!" I believe that if Matt were to be chosen
    > as leader, we would have had a sane and working VM on par with
    > FreeBSD's months ago. While he has little leadership experience, he
    > is a member of FreeBSD-core, a position which certainly demands
    > respect.
    >
    > Eric S. Raymond: Being leader of kernel development involves
    > fielding a significant amount of media attention. ESR has shown
    > on many occasions that he can talk shit and still sound just as
    > convincing as anyone on this list, all the time being completely
    > oblivious to any contrasting viewpoints. While his
    > kernel-configuration-adventure-game contribution to Linux just
    > screams out "worthless bloat", I must admit to having enjoyed
    > many a lonely night playing the game. If he could lay a similar
    > interface over gdb, I'm sure that more kernel hackers would
    > actually debug their work before submitting it.
    >
    > Richard M. Stallman: RMS has an exceptional track record in the
    > open-source field, being largely responsible for my favorite text
    > editor, compiler, and debugger. No other open-source hacker has
    > come as close as he has to replicating the integration available
    > with Microsoft Visual C++ 6 years ago. I fully endorse him as a
    > candidate, assuming he's willing to drop his puerile "GNU/Linux"
    > ego stroking.
    >
    > Theo de Raadt: Theo is an exceptional candidate. Not only is he a
    > more than adequate hacker; he attracts exactly the type of people
    > to OpenBSD that he wants, and will jettison those who are not up to
    > the task. While purging out all the less-than-adequate hackers
    > in the Linux project will inevitably attract negative publicity
    > from Slashdot and other "community" sites where these feeble hackers
    > hang out, it will no doubt strengthen Linux in the future. Just
    > look at what Theo's strong leadership has done for OpenBSD! He
    > turned around the worthless "research project" that was NetBSD and
    > made it an enterprise-class firewall system. I can only imagine
    > the effect his Midas touch could have on the Linux kernel.
    >
    > You have until the end of April 1, 23:59 Pacific Time to submit your
    > nominations to the list. The most nominated person will become the leader
    > of kernel development. I will examine the list of nominations and,
    > assuming that the winner wants the job, I will hand full control over to
    > them. I know that this is short notice, but knowing how obsessively most
    > of you check your inboxes, I figure you should have more than adequate
    > time to submit your recommendations. The decision will be final and no
    > discussion will be considered after it has been made, so choose
    > carefully.
    >
    > Thank you.
    >
    > Linus
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