Sean wrote:
On Fri, April 29, 2005 2:54 pm, Tom Lord said:
The process should not rely on the security of every developer's
machine. The process should not rely on simply trusting quality
contributors by reputation (e.g., most cons begin by establishing
trust and continue by relying inappropriately on
trust-without-verification). This relates to why Linus'
self-advertised process should be raising yellow and red cards all
over the place: either he is wasting a huge amount of his own time and
should be largely replaced by an automated patch queue manager, or he
is being trusted to do more than is humanly possible.
Ahh, you don't believe in the development model that has produced Linux!
Personally I do believe in it, so much so that I question the value of
signatures at the changeset level. To me it doesn't matter where the code
came from just so long as it works.
Lawyers must love you... That approach doesn't work in court.
Related: look at the new software patent law, it ignores the existing
law, judge and jury, and lets MS avoid paying the judgement for a suit
it already lost.
See Computerworld etc for details.
--
-bill davidsen ([email protected])
"The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the
last possible moment - but no longer" -me
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to [email protected]
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
[Index of Archives]
[Kernel Newbies]
[Netfilter]
[Bugtraq]
[Photo]
[Stuff]
[Gimp]
[Yosemite News]
[MIPS Linux]
[ARM Linux]
[Linux Security]
[Linux RAID]
[Video 4 Linux]
[Linux for the blind]
[Linux Resources]
