Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Accountability | Date | Tue, 14 Sep 1999 18:16:03 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> > A suitable fashion means someone submits it to Linus and promises to maintain > > it and fix it. > > Is this documented somewhere?
5 years of tradition
> Another lesson from history is the gcc/egcs development. I'd say Linux's in > the balance now, but if I were intimately involved with the kernel, I'd be > open-sourcing it as quickly as possible.
Free software projects without good input filtering of ideas turn into bloated sludge. Egcs has good filtering (you should hear some of the things people say about the Cygnus guys after they get told "no" a few times ;)) so it works.
Alan
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