From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.1 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_INVALID, DKIM_SIGNED,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED,USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38F19C433ED for ; Tue, 11 May 2021 15:45:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 009FC61260 for ; Tue, 11 May 2021 15:45:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S231916AbhEKPq6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 May 2021 11:46:58 -0400 Received: from toccata2.tricolour.ca ([204.225.221.17]:40037 "EHLO toccata2.tricolour.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S231609AbhEKPq4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 May 2021 11:46:56 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 356 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Tue, 11 May 2021 11:46:56 EDT Received: by toccata2.tricolour.ca (Postfix, from userid 1000) id D1FAF1F2FD; Tue, 11 May 2021 11:39:53 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple/simple; d=tricolour.ca; s=default; t=1620747593; bh=IVVLkIAVUSLZJLWKlKI8PzNwcm4d3uM2TisEJJTmiss=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=J459RmxJY5QDycJUPqk2DtFa52bG96PshdJrZDAae74my1dqlQ+R4QUMX/Cd68Y6n E+FqHK7vjilO7KcDrwIcYwcfKaxq8YGmatc1KZ1cdPf7ZN/8b1izscTULVgwxiul6k llW3JTnPXyjnU+t540RmYDl73/V5J15qfJ3b8/xI= Date: Tue, 11 May 2021 11:39:53 -0400 From: Richard Guy Briggs To: Metztli Information Technology Cc: Kees Cook , Pavel Machek , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Kangjie Lu , tech-board@lists.linux-foundation.org, Andrew Morton Subject: Re: Report on University of Minnesota Breach-of-Trust Incident Message-ID: <20210511153953.GL1724@tricolour.ca> References: <202105051005.49BFABCE@keescook> <20210506082616.GA20224@duo.ucw.cz> <202105061042.E99B414F0A@keescook> <4eb59c7815d86d85e42b50c45f10e47273c5e0e0.camel@metztli.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4eb59c7815d86d85e42b50c45f10e47273c5e0e0.camel@metztli.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 2021-05-06 14:02, Metztli Information Technology wrote: > On Thu, 2021-05-06 at 11:40 -0700, Kees Cook wrote: > > On Thu, May 06, 2021 at 10:26:16AM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > This has aged well: > > "Linux has a problem, which is that with success it is attracting > people with more skill than what it started with, and it is not doing a > very good job of handling that. In fact, it downright stinks at it, > behaving in the worst way it could choose for handling that. [Linux] > have lost quite a number of FS developers who just don't want to deal > with people who know less than they do but are obnoxious and > disrespectful to submissions because they enjoy powertripping... > *[Linux] should develop a culture in which acceptance is more based on > whose code measurably performs well [,i.e, meritocracy, rather] than on > who is friends with whom.*~ > > < https://lkml.org/lkml/2006/7/21/109 > This sounds very Objectivist to me. It doesn't appear you read the rest of the thread. The very first reply to that thread resonates: https://lkml.org/lkml/2006/7/21/135 This is one of the reasons I gravitated to Linux just over 29 years ago after a couple of years of exprience in other open source communities. > Best Professional Regards. > Jose R R slainte mhath, RGB -- Richard Guy Briggs -- ~\ -- ~\ -- \___ o \@ @ Ride yer bike! Ottawa, ON, CANADA -- Lo_>__M__\\/\%__\\/\% Vote! -- _____GTVS6#790__(*)__(*)________(*)(*)_________________