[Tfug] Alan Cox: "I've had enough"--what else is new?

[Bowie J. Poag]

Ugh.

You guys act surprised that there's petty bickering and useless drama 
associated with the Linux scene. When HASN'T progress in Linux circles 
been bent/delayed/halted by petty bickering and ego-driven feuds?

If you read Torvald's letter to Cox that got him riled up in the first 
place, the damn thing reads like a letter from a disgruntled lover. It 
also paints a picture of Alan Cox being Linus Torvald's bitch. For any 
guy with a shred of dignity to put up with crap like that is amazing.  
One gets the feeling that there's sort of mutually parasitic 
relationship at work there between the two..Linus needs someone on the 
hook to do the hard work, and Alan needs coattails to ride to quiet geek 
fame and admiration on. It's sad.

The whole free software movement has been tainted with this sort of 
crap. It's always has been the case for the Linux movement as well, even 
from its earliest days.

Oh, by the way, here's a video of Richard Stallman sitting down on 
stage, pulling his sock off, and eating his toe cheese. These are your 
"leaders".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I25UeVXrEHQ


Cheers,
Bowie

PS... RMS is also a pedo. He's stated openly that he believes pedophilia 
should be legal, and that the only reason that they're illegal is due to 
"prejudice and narrowmindedness". 

http://stallman.org/archives/2003-may-aug.html





Eric Gearhart wrote:
> Maybe this discussion will carry over to the happy hour tonight....
> has anyone seen/heard about the Alan Cox "screw it I'm leaving"
> debacle?
>
> http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/07/29/1925224/Alan-Cox-Quits-As-Linux-TTY-Maintainer-mdash-Ive-Had-Enough?from=rss
>
> "After a stern criticism from Linus, the long-time kernel hacker Alan
> Cox has decided to walk away as the maintainer of the TTY subsystem of
> the Linux Kernel, stating '...I've had enough. If you think that
> problem is easy to fix you fix it. Have fun. I've zapped the tty merge
> queue so anyone with patches for the tty layer can send them to the
> new maintainer.'"
>
> Reading over the thread (
> http://groups.google.com/group/fa.linux.kernel/browse_frm/thread/3c86e046663e163e/65ee5a5b49b5a596?tvc=1&pli=1
> ), it strikes me that Linus tends to take the verbal abuse a bit far
> IMO...
>
> --
> Eric
> http://nixwizard.net
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