Re: [ros-dev] HP webOS goes opensource

[Adam]

Ah, politics. ;)

Linus Torvalds wouldn't even let a kernel debugger make it into the
kernel for a long time because he seemed to be under the impression
that they are for sissies.

http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Kernel/linus-im-a-bastard-speech.html
http://www.mail-archive.com/[e-mail]/msg01462.html
(note: currently blacked out to try and rais awareness that some
shitheads in the US Congress want to censor the internet [with SOPA and
PIPA legislation] - try after ~12 hours)

(that being said the reply by Ameen Ross may have merit - there are
probably two sides to the story - the LKML should be able to tell) 

On Wed, 18 Jan 2012 19:18:48 +0100
Timo Kreuzer <timo.kreuzer(a)web.de> wrote:

>   Am 18.01.2012 16:06, schrieb Aleksey Bragin:
> >  
> >  P.S. Proper answer from Linux team would be "We accept
> >  patches!" :-). 
>  Maybe that doesn't match reality. I remember reading an
> article by
>  some guy who wrote lots of patches for the scheduler and finally
>  rewrote the whole thing.
>  It proved to perform better than the original scheduler and many
>  people were using it, yet it never got incorporated into the mainline
>  kernel. At some point some other guy rewrote the original scheduler
>  doing basically the same thing that he had developed earlier and at
>  that point he quit linux development.
>  
>  
>  
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