Alan Cox wrote:
> > The problem is not builders, or designers - this list has plenty of
> > both.
> >
> > What Adrian is talking about are the people who go to designers and say
> > "Build me something blue, with a design that doesn't work with the VFS".
>
> And the real test of whether someone is a good engineer or a dodgy
> consultant then follows. The engineer says "no" the consultant says
> "it'll cost ya" ;)
And the realist may say: look there is a middle way that reduces complexity
many-folds and still gets us what we want.
> Humour aside don;t knock the people who have the ideas - in amongst all
> the people wanting something that is insane are aluable pieces of
> information if you can ever work them out - What they actually *want*
> to be able to do, and sometimes ideas that are ones people used to the
> technology wouldn't have - most are silly but just occasionally you get
> the "that would be silly, we'd have to umm, interesting maybe we could,
> I'll get back to you" type ideas.
Exactly, and that's what makes these ideas so valuable.
Thanks!
--
Al
-
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]
