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Some idle comments about Linus' e-mail response and Linux

Some idle comments about Linus' e-mail response and Linux

Posted Mar 1, 2007 11:27 UTC (Thu) by k8to (subscriber, #15413)
In reply to: Some idle comments about Linus' e-mail response and Linux by ekj
Parent article: Re: [GIT PATCH] HID and USB HID update for 2.6.21-rc2

There's lots of forms of bad taste. Doing something in a complex sophisticated way when a simplistic straightforward way will get the job done fine is a "favorite" of mine.

But I think in design and engineering, bad taste is not very subjective. I think there is a high degree of consensus among people skilled in those fields about what is in bad taste. Sure there's some subjectivity, but I think it's, in practice, quite small.


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