Look, when Elvis died did people just give up on Rock and Roll? No. Other people came along and worked with the medium. Just because shit-hot programmer X dun wanna do it, that doesn't mean it won't get done by someone. So Linus thinks that because he doesn't want to convert it no one will? OK, yeah, that's big ego, but it doesn't mean he's right. It just means he won't put his time into that project. If the demand is there, someone will do it. That's really the whole point.
And as for "Right" or "Wrong" choices...whatever. You only think he's passing up on the right choice because you have some vested interest in the "right" choice (either you want the driver or you think he should bow to the demands of the masses or whatever). There's no moral imperative here. People aren't going to live or die based on Linus deciding not to work on this driver.
Look, even though millions of people are starving around the world, you've chosen not to allieviate their suffereing by becoming a farmer or an NGO head or a politician or an agribusiness CEO or whatever -- nope you decided to take a programming job. (and so did I and Linus for that matter) *If* world hunger is somehow eased by your work, it's not because you set out to do so, it's just a happy by-product.
If you want, you could be a hero, *you* could convert the kernel and put the driver together and release it on open source. By placating the demands of the masses you would be an instant Linux hero. Open-source also comes with the idea that if you don't like it, you can change it and that one person or group shouldn't be solely responsible for producing every permutation of the product. If you're just going to sit around and complain that Linus isn't going to give you what you want, you may as well stick with MS.
Then open-source works perfectly...
Look, when Elvis died did people just give up on Rock and Roll? No. Other people came along and worked with the medium. Just because shit-hot programmer X dun wanna do it, that doesn't mean it won't get done by someone. So Linus thinks that because he doesn't want to convert it no one will? OK, yeah, that's big ego, but it doesn't mean he's right. It just means he won't put his time into that project. If the demand is there, someone will do it. That's really the whole point.
And as for "Right" or "Wrong" choices...whatever. You only think he's passing up on the right choice because you have some vested interest in the "right" choice (either you want the driver or you think he should bow to the demands of the masses or whatever). There's no moral imperative here. People aren't going to live or die based on Linus deciding not to work on this driver.
Look, even though millions of people are starving around the world, you've chosen not to allieviate their suffereing by becoming a farmer or an NGO head or a politician or an agribusiness CEO or whatever -- nope you decided to take a programming job. (and so did I and Linus for that matter) *If* world hunger is somehow eased by your work, it's not because you set out to do so, it's just a happy by-product.
If you want, you could be a hero, *you* could convert the kernel and put the driver together and release it on open source. By placating the demands of the masses you would be an instant Linux hero. Open-source also comes with the idea that if you don't like it, you can change it and that one person or group shouldn't be solely responsible for producing every permutation of the product. If you're just going to sit around and complain that Linus isn't going to give you what you want, you may as well stick with MS.
Also? Venture Brothers DVD!
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