Torgeir Veimo wrote: > Gerd Knorr wrote: > > "-- > You can't please everybody. And usually if you _try_ to please > everybody, the end result is one big mess. -- Linus Torvalds, 2002-04-20" > > Where's that quote from? BK flamewars on lkml ... Gerd ==============================[ cut here ]============================== Newsgroups: lists.linux.kernel Path: bytesex.in-berlin.de!mail2news Approved: mail2news Return-Path: <linux-kernel-owner+kraxel=40bytesex.org@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 10:35:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: Daniel Phillips <phillips@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> cc: Jeff Garzik <garzik@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Roman Zippel <zippel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove Bitkeeper documentation from Linux tree DEBUG-In-Reply-To: <E16yc0t-0000VL-00@starship> References: <E16yc0t-0000VL-00@starship> Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0204201023490.19512-100000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Lines: 33 Xref: bytesex.in-berlin.de lists.linux.kernel:73604 On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Daniel Phillips wrote: > > But did you think it might be controversial? Ehh, the documentaion? Nope, I didn't really think _that_ part would be controversial. The change to BK? I sure as hell knew that was going to be "interesting", yes absolutely. After all, it had been discussed at places like the kernel summit etc. But hey - I've never really cared about what other people think about what I do. If I had, I'd have given up on Linux when Tanenbaum ridiculed it. Or I wouldn't have done the big dentry change (which was a total disaster in some peoples minds) in 2.1.x. Or the VM changeover in the middle of 2.4.x. Or a million other things. I do what _I_ think is right for the kernel, and while I tend to poll people and listen to them, when the sh*t hits the fan it is _my_ decision. You can't please everybody. And usually if you _try_ to please everybody, the end result is one big mess. Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ ==============================[ cut here ]==============================
