Re: what's next for the linux kernel?

[Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>]

On Wed, Oct 05 2005, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 02:31:14PM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> 
> > [i know better criticism and accusations deleted and not commented on]
> 
> > Why is that so hard to understand? Succesful contributions start at the
> > technical level, always have.
>  
>  then we will have to agree to disagree, because i believe that
>  successful contributions start with "what creative thing shall
>  we do now / what problem shall we tackle today in a creative
>  way?" and work their way down to the technical level, which,
>  as you rightly point out, requires successful _technical_
>  contributions.

It's not my opinion, I'm stating historical fact. I honestly can't
remember when a succesfull contribution was made based on a long
non-technical thread. I can, however, remember oodles of cases where the
reverse is quite true.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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