kernel-libre (hopefully 100% Free) for Fedora 8 and rawhide

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 12:51 PM, Alan Cox <alan at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 12:35:13PM -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
>  > No the core of any mission is some sort of  religion and belief.
>
>  Faith maybe - not religion
>
>
>  > Politics is the policy of getting and using power over other beings.
>
>  And religion to quote Dune is what happens when faith meets politics.
>
>

I was just about to correct myself with that. Sorry for the
mis-speaking... which brings me to my favorite Goodies episode:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wacky_Wales.. where faith and rugby
intersect.

>  > spin with this kernel in it. What people have said is "If you want
>  > more support from core people, this is what we would like so we can
>  > help you."
>
>  Bingo - the kernel project works by keeping everyone happy. So you fix the
>  firmware problem by making the embedded people happy (don't waste ram),
>  the developers happy (stop mucking up my git tree), the vendors happy (we
>  can ship firmware update packages sanely) the end users happy (better
>  performance, not noticing the change) and the free software extremists happy
>  ("I don't install proprietary firmware"). You don't make progress by making
>  them all hate you.

On the other hand, we haven't had a good martyr lately. I



-- 
Stephen J Smoogen. -- CSIRT/Linux System Administrator
How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed
in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice"