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ELC: The embedded Linux nightmareELC: The embedded Linux nightmarePosted Apr 18, 2007 22:34 UTC (Wed) by bronson (subscriber, #4806)In reply to: ELC: The embedded Linux nightmare by vmole Parent article: ELC: The embedded Linux nightmare
Then they say, "But... give up control of my code? Do you have the brain worms??"
The Cirrus reply mentioned in the article had this attitude. Companies seem to believe that, unless their engineers are the sole committers, their driver will turn into, I don't know, Paris Hilton or something. They won't let "their" source code be modified by the more skilled and qualified Linux kernel team, even though it produces a fairly significant cost savings for them.
It's bizarre. I hope this attitude is just a hold-over from the proprietary 90s and disappears as the new generation of programmers takes over.
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ELC: The embedded Linux nightmare Posted Apr 19, 2007 3:02 UTC (Thu) by markcox (guest, #29577) [Link] It's bizarre, how people engaging in a seemingly 'civilized' discussion resort to making negative remarks about celebrities to make their point. Is this lwn or digg.com ?
ELC: The embedded Linux nightmare Posted Apr 19, 2007 7:21 UTC (Thu) by Zenith (subscriber, #24899) [Link] It's bizarre, how people engaging in a seemingly 'civilized' discussion resort to making negative remarks about celebrities to make their point. Is this lwn or digg.comI actually found the comment quite funny. Why should we always keep the discussion insanely clean and to the point? Even programmers need to laugh once in a while, and I did :) And really, do you think that Paris Hilton cares much for what programmers have to say about her? ;)
ELC: The embedded Linux nightmare Posted Apr 21, 2007 21:39 UTC (Sat) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link] Sorry markcox, I did not intend to offend. Allow me to rephrase...
They're afraid "their driver will turn into, I don't know, a frothing cow or something."
Is that easier on your sensibilities?
ELC: The embedded Linux nightmare Posted Apr 22, 2007 0:49 UTC (Sun) by markcox (guest, #29577) [Link] haha. Yes much better thanks :)
ELC: The embedded Linux nightmare Posted May 2, 2007 7:57 UTC (Wed) by blujay (guest, #39961) [Link] Does this mean that you equate Paris Hilton to a frothing cow?
For the record, I quite enjoyed the original, along with the brain worms. =)
ELC: The embedded Linux nightmare Posted May 1, 2007 18:19 UTC (Tue) by ParisHilton (guest, #45014) [Link] Yes, I find this statement offensive! I've been a dedicated LWN reader for years and I've never been so insulted!
ELC: The embedded Linux nightmare Posted Apr 19, 2007 8:17 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] The companies' developers obviously don't believe that, or given theoverwhelming male-dominance of the software development field, they'd all be *rushing* to hurl all their code at the kernel devs.
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