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A tempest in a tty pot

A tempest in a tty pot

Posted Jul 29, 2009 20:33 UTC (Wed) by AlexHudson (subscriber, #41828)
In reply to: A tempest in a tty pot by Baylink
Parent article: A tempest in a tty pot

I think you're basically right.

In other areas of the kernel you wouldn't notice - people have thrown up their hands in places like IDE even after substantial work, it gets chucked out, and other people willingly step up.

It means that there is really very little compelling reason to 'play nice'. Until it comes to keeping the completer-finisher types for places like tty...


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