I take that to mean `no'.
>> 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.
Good input filtering? I've never seen anyone be told `no' because their
patches were too large (in fact, as far as I can see, large slabs of egcs are
farmed out to largely independent groups, as has effectively happened with
ISDN under Linux), nor because one of the developers' machines doesn't have
bz2.
As far as it goes, `good' input filtering for Linux would be able to be done
by tossing a coin, so long as people were able to select which branches they
wanted to continue to work on, submit and check out.
Additionally, coins don't get stuck on `no' for things like GGI.
Colin.
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