From: Peter Samuelson <peter@cadcamlab.org>
To: Elmer Joandi <elmer@ylenurme.ee>
Cc: Rogier Wolff <R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Universal debug macros.
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 19:34:44 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20001127193444.H8881@wire.cadcamlab.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200011271459.PAA18635@cave.bitwizard.nl> <Pine.LNX.4.10.10011271747210.13242-100000@yle-server.ylenurme.sise>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10011271747210.13242-100000@yle-server.ylenurme.sise>; from elmer@ylenurme.ee on Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 05:58:11PM +0200
[Elmer Joandi]
> Oh, and one more point: if linux is going to have nonprofessional
> endusers space comparable to MSWin, then you probably do not want to
> have every bug report, because these will be stupid anyway, with or
> without debug info. But if ideological wars stop development in
> nonsense places, then that day wont come anyway.
What is the name of that corollary to Godwin's Law? You know, the one
about mentioning "competition with Windows" in any discussion about the
need for a given feature in Linux?
See also the one about mentioning "my grandmother reading e-mail" in
any discussion on user interfaces.
Peter
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-11-28 2:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-11-26 17:53 [PATCH] removal of "static foo = 0" Elmer Joandi
2000-11-26 18:36 ` Alexander Viro
2000-11-26 19:11 ` Elmer Joandi
2000-11-26 22:49 ` Rogier Wolff
2000-11-26 23:30 ` Universal debug macros Elmer Joandi
2000-11-27 0:45 ` Rogier Wolff
2000-11-27 1:11 ` Elmer Joandi
2000-11-27 4:25 ` H. Peter Anvin
2000-11-27 5:19 ` Michael Meissner
2000-11-27 16:56 ` Chmouel Boudjnah
2000-11-27 17:47 ` H. Peter Anvin
2000-11-27 17:56 ` Chmouel Boudjnah
2000-11-27 17:58 ` H. Peter Anvin
2000-11-27 18:10 ` Chmouel Boudjnah
2000-11-27 18:28 ` H. Peter Anvin
2000-11-27 18:39 ` Chmouel Boudjnah
2000-11-27 18:41 ` H. Peter Anvin
2000-11-27 21:09 ` Gerhard Mack
2000-11-27 8:35 ` Rogier Wolff
2000-11-27 14:42 ` Elmer Joandi
2000-11-27 14:59 ` Rogier Wolff
2000-11-27 15:58 ` Elmer Joandi
2000-11-28 1:34 ` Peter Samuelson [this message]
2000-11-27 16:37 ` Andrew E. Mileski
2000-11-27 17:01 ` Richard B. Johnson
2000-11-27 17:19 ` Andrew E. Mileski
2000-11-27 18:01 ` Richard B. Johnson
2000-11-27 19:55 ` Andrew E. Mileski
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