From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: schily@schily.net (Joerg Schilling) Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2017 19:14:44 +0100 Subject: [TUHS] Mach for i386 / Mt Xinu or other In-Reply-To: <20170219154432.GA19243@mcvoy.com> References: <1c400c16-5f18-4475-a8e2-99976e571a37@SG2APC01FT039.eop-APC01.prod.protection.outlook.com> <635c06b4-0048-4951-95ca-283c64c30fed@SG2APC01FT017.eop-APC01.prod.protection.outlook.com> <1ba0f584-6478-4332-bcae-63ac6cedf2f6@SG2APC01FT041.eop-APC01.prod.protection.outlook.com> <20170219154432.GA19243@mcvoy.com> Message-ID: <58ab3214.+jRaJEWVki5gYHFz%schily@schily.net> Larry McVoy wrote: > Linus had the qualities of being a good programmer, a good architect, > and a good manager. I've never seen all 3 in a person before or since. My memory is different. He claims that his intention is to keep kernel/userspace interfaces stable, but given the fact that this did never happen, I tend to believe that he lacks the understanding on what all is part of the kernel/userspace interface. He also send me a 10 line patch for cdrtools in 2004 and I did never get a worse patch (a patch that includes more new bugs) for my software. So I cannot confirm your view. He is a person with a strong ego and this may have helped to spread Linux. Jörg -- EMail:joerg at schily.net (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin joerg.schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.org/private/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/schilytools/files/