On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, Davide Libenzi wrote: > > > > "Perhaps on the rare occasion pursuing the right course demands an act of > > unfairness, unfairness itself can be the right course?" > > I don't think that's the right issue. > > It's just that "fairness" != "equal". > > Do you think it "fair" to pay everybody the same regardless of how good a > job they do? I don't think anybody really believes that. > > Equating "fair" and "equal" is simply a very fundamental mistake. They're > not the same thing. Never have been, and never will. I know, we agree there. But that did not fit my "Pirates of the Caribbean" quote :) - Davide - 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/
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