From: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@tricolour.ca>
To: Metztli Information Technology <jose.r.r@metztli.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Kangjie Lu <kjlu@umn.edu>,
tech-board@lists.linux-foundation.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: Report on University of Minnesota Breach-of-Trust Incident
Date: Tue, 11 May 2021 11:39:53 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210511153953.GL1724@tricolour.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4eb59c7815d86d85e42b50c45f10e47273c5e0e0.camel@metztli.com>
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
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-05-11 15:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-05-05 17:07 Report on University of Minnesota Breach-of-Trust Incident Kees Cook
2021-05-06 8:26 ` Pavel Machek
2021-05-06 18:40 ` Kees Cook
2021-05-06 21:02 ` Metztli Information Technology
2021-05-11 15:39 ` Richard Guy Briggs [this message]
2021-05-06 21:40 ` Pavel Machek
2021-05-08 1:30 ` Kangjie Lu
2021-05-09 17:56 ` Kees Cook
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