Posted Feb 18, 2010 2:23 UTC (Thu) by neilbrown (subscriber, #359)
Parent article: How old is our kernel?
Now that these numbers have been published, we risk the XKCD effect - developers will check which of "their" files appear to still be "old" and find an excuse to change them, just to make "their" subsystem seem more current, cool, hip, and up-to-date.
Further proof that you cannot observe a system without changing it....