Quotes of the week

Of greatest interest to me were the descriptions given by Patrick McHardy for his new filtering framework, where all the complexity is in userspace and the kernel just runs filtering scripts and lookup datastructures fed to it by the user tools. In short, I think this stuff is great, and unlike some folks I don't think this will decrease netfilter participation by other developers at all.

And frankly, iptables was absolutely too accessible to contributors. Look at how much stinking poo is in the patch-o-matic, oft called "crap-o-matic".

But then voting season comes and reminds you that all those Americans that are individually sane and normal tend to be collectively crazy and very odd. And that's when you really notice that you're not in Finland any more.