Tiemann steers course for open source (ZDNet)

[Posted December 4, 2002 by corbet]

ZDNet interviews Red Hat CTO Michael Tiemann. "The key discriminating function of the main Linux maintainers--which include Linus Torvalds--is their absolute no-compromise position on clean interfaces and forcing people who want to go two steps forward to not go one step back. What this means is, in many kernel mailing-list discussions I've seen over the last 12 months, when somebody proposes a solution that solves some problems but brings with it other problems, generally that solution is rejected until the other problems are addressed."

nice quote

Posted Dec 5, 2002 0:09 UTC (Thu) by Peter (guest, #1127) [Link]

"In the old approach, the manageability tools had to necessarily treat the operating system as a hostile platform."

I dunno, that just sounds cool. (Context: Tiemann is talking about how Linux management tools will evolve to be less kludgy than traditional tools because of the open nature of the platform.)