On Thu, Feb 25, 1999 at 10:27:06AM -0800, Larry McVoy wrote:
> Somebody needs to say no. All design and code needs to go through a
> screening process and people need to justify their changes. If everyone
> had Linus' sense of taste, his broad perspective on the whole OS, etc,
> etc, then this process would not be needed. But Linus is remarkable,
> I've never seen anyone quite like him in 15 years of OS work. Most people
> are not like Linus, unfortunately.
Maybe (in his copious free time ;-) Linus could try to write a paper describing
his design philosophies (perhaps he has already, and I just haven't seen it)?
Stick it into linux/Documentation so everyone who grabs the kernel source can
read it.
S.
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