Everyone jokes about how stupid and lazy driver authors are. I'm guilty of that in the email that Russell was replying to. You'd have to be some kind of imbecile to actually believe it though. Surely kernel developers aren't *that* egotistical... ;)
Posted Jan 5, 2013 22:05 UTC (Sat) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954)
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Maybe I'm just too nice a guy, but I always take lines like that as tongue-in-cheek hyperbole; i.e. I assume the best of the writer. I don't consider it an insult unless it was intended to hurt.