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From: Bruce Hill <daddy@×××××××××××××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ["PATCH"] Linus breaks virtualbox-modules
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2013 20:15:55
Message-Id: 20130221201541.GV30998@server
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] ["PATCH"] Linus breaks virtualbox-modules by Joerg Schilling
1 On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 11:00:52AM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote:
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3 > I cannot speak for your specific case, but I know that Linus definitely did
4 > break the SCSI generic pass through interface in Linux several times and one
5 > time this was done while integrating his personal code.
6 >
7 > At that time it turned out, that Linus does not seem to be able to understand
8 > what changes may break an interface. The real problem however was that he was
9 > not willing to fix his fault, so we can definitely call this case (from Spring
10 > 2004) a break by intention.
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13 > Jörg
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15 > --
16 > EMail:joerg@××××××××××××××××××××××××.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin
17 > js@××××××××××××.de (uni)
18 > joerg.schilling@××××××××××××××××.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/
19 > URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily
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30 A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
31 Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
32 A: Top-posting.
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35 Don't top-post: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_post#Top-posting