[Tfug] Alan Cox: "I've had enough"--what else is new?

[Michael Gatto]

Bowie, 

 

You write as if the Linux community is the only one with a flair for drama. On the BSD side of the house, Theo can sometimes be a drama queen par excellence ("I'll never upgrade Apache in OpenBSD past 1.3.28, mofos!"). And, seriously, they don't call it the "Second Coming of Steve Jobs" without an ironic sense of drama originating from his own world-sized ego. 

 

So, instead of pointing fingers, lets all sit back and enjoy the show...and just be amazed that we get something useful and free / libre out of all this :-)

 

- Mike Gatto

 

 

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> Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 00:33:20 -0700
> From: "Bowie J. Poag" <bpoag at comcast.net>
> Subject: Re: [Tfug] Alan Cox: "I've had enough"--what else is new?
> To: Tucson Free Unix Group <tfug at tfug.org>
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> Ugh.
> 
> You guys act surprised that there's petty bickering and useless drama 
> associated with the Linux scene. When HASN'T progress in Linux circles 
> been bent/delayed/halted by petty bickering and ego-driven feuds?
> 
> If you read Torvald's letter to Cox that got him riled up in the first 
> place, the damn thing reads like a letter from a disgruntled lover. It 
> also paints a picture of Alan Cox being Linus Torvald's bitch. For any 
> guy with a shred of dignity to put up with crap like that is amazing. 
> One gets the feeling that there's sort of mutually parasitic 
> relationship at work there between the two..Linus needs someone on the 
> hook to do the hard work, and Alan needs coattails to ride to quiet geek 
> fame and admiration on. It's sad.
> 
> The whole free software movement has been tainted with this sort of 
> crap. It's always has been the case for the Linux movement as well, even 
> from its earliest days.
> 
> Oh, by the way, here's a video of Richard Stallman sitting down on 
> stage, pulling his sock off, and eating his toe cheese. These are your 
> "leaders".
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I25UeVXrEHQ
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Bowie
> 
> PS... RMS is also a pedo. He's stated openly that he believes pedophilia 
> should be legal, and that the only reason that they're illegal is due to 
> "prejudice and narrowmindedness". 
> 
> http://stallman.org/archives/2003-may-aug.html
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Eric Gearhart wrote:
> > Maybe this discussion will carry over to the happy hour tonight....
> > has anyone seen/heard about the Alan Cox "screw it I'm leaving"
> > debacle?
> >
> > http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/07/29/1925224/Alan-Cox-Quits-As-Linux-TTY-Maintainer-mdash-Ive-Had-Enough?from=rss
> >
> > "After a stern criticism from Linus, the long-time kernel hacker Alan
> > Cox has decided to walk away as the maintainer of the TTY subsystem of
> > the Linux Kernel, stating '...I've had enough. If you think that
> > problem is easy to fix you fix it. Have fun. I've zapped the tty merge
> > queue so anyone with patches for the tty layer can send them to the
> > new maintainer.'"
> >
> > Reading over the thread (
> > http://groups.google.com/group/fa.linux.kernel/browse_frm/thread/3c86e046663e163e/65ee5a5b49b5a596?tvc=1&pli=1
> > ), it strikes me that Linus tends to take the verbal abuse a bit far
> > IMO...
> >
> > --
> > Eric
> > http://nixwizard.net
> >
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