David Ford wrote:
> Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Donald Becker wrote:
> > > I'm in the increasingly untenable position of being expected to maintain
> > > drivers for the current and older kernels, but not having any influence over
> > > the new development exactly because of that backwards compatibility.
> >
> > Then participate in discussions on linux-kernel! That's how open source works.
>
> Open source also means dispersion. We don't have megopoly center here. There's a
> huge amount of development that goes on OFF the linux-kernel list for numerous
> reasons.
He ignored feedback from kernel developers, which is simply unacceptable
when his intention was to update the most popular Linux kernel net
drivers en masse.
Jeff
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