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Who wrote it

Posted Apr 1, 2008 16:59 UTC (Tue) by zlynx (subscriber, #2285)
In reply to: Who wrote it by AlexHudson
Parent article: The Linux Foundation's kernel development paper

Even if the "widget allocator" had horrible problems, the original author still merits credit.
Why?  Because, like Edison said about the lightbulb, he discovered some of the many ways *not*
to do it.  That is a very useful discovery.

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