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Re: shaper or whatever

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (H. Peter Anvin)
Sat Jun 29 05:01:34 1996

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From: hpa@transmeta.com (H. Peter Anvin)
Date: 	28 Jun 1996 22:35:21 GMT

In article <199606261747.NAA21416@etinc.com>, Dennis <dennis@etinc.com> wrote:
>
> Perhaps thats because people that really write code understand that 
> occasionally my comments can be useful. There's guys like that on 
> every list....its part of the "UN*X experience".
>
> I'm on this list to get help finding bugs not to discuss
> philosophy. It started with the "no source == BAD_GUY" thing and has
> snowballed.
>
> Frankly i have no time for this, and I'm certainly not learning
> anything here.
>

I for one believe it is useful with *constructive* feedback from users
and vendors who support Linux.  As far as binary drivers go, this was
laid to rest a long time ago by Linus; if you don't like binary-only
drivers, don't buy those products.

	-hpa



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