Linus codes up a patch manager

Linus codes up a patch manager

Bruce, do you have a PhD? Are you aware of what sort of person gets a PhD?

I'm probably PhD quality, though I doubt I'd survive the course. I know I'm extremely bright. And from my contacts with several OS developers like Tridge (although not him in particular) I know that they're in the same class as me, if not better! (The main difference between me and them is they're probably a damn sight more meticulous.)

Oh - and I'm a Brit. I gather Americans consider our basic Batchelor to be the equivalent of their own Masters, although probably less so nowadays now that the degree system has been so thoroughly dumbed down. That was certainly the case though when I got my BA!

Either way, when Larry says he's got PhD class and better brains *struggling* to solve his problems, I find it only too easy to believe him. And those brains don't come cheap!

And when he says that the resulting work is simple to reverse-engineer, that again I find that only too believable - in my field (Chemistry) I was taught High-School chemistry at a level higher than what the PhDs were researching when my teacher was at Uni. Once the problem has been understood for the first time, it's easy to understand again. It's the first time that's the problem.

Cheers,
Wol