Re: Disgusted with kbuild developers

From: Eric S. Raymond (esr@thyrsus.com)
Date: Fri Feb 15 2002 - 17:22:58 EST


Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>:
> Perhaps they don't like the results of your efforts and they resent what
> they perceive to be end runs around the normal process of getting changes
> accepted. As well they should. Your attempt to avoid peer review is
                                                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> disgusting, it's the worst of what happens in closed source shops when
> marketing forces the wrong answer in over the objections of the people
> who have to live with it. Yuck.

I've "avoided peer review" really effectively, yeah. Unanimous support
from the kbuild team. Three other projects using the software. Dozens
of beta testers. Nope, no review at all there. Ain't I clever?

-- 
		<a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
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