LWN: Comments on "The 2003 Kernel Developers Summit"

swearing in the linux kernel

tomek — Fri, 13 May 2005 14:31:03 +0000

graphs over swearing in the linux kernel: http://www.vidarholen.net/contents/wordcount/ funny :) Tom

First stop ads for SCO / Caldera / Xenix / etc. !

corbet — Sun, 03 Aug 2003 13:06:51 +0000

Well, I think that advertising and editorial policy should be separate from each other. But...

We're not running any ads from SCO. We are running ads from Google, and some of those ads are from SCO resellers. Google provides a primitive filtering capability which I've been using to get rid of some of them, but it's hard to catch them all. New ones tend to pop up over time.

First stop ads for SCO / Caldera / Xenix / etc. !

yann — Sun, 03 Aug 2003 10:11:13 +0000

Hi,

It would be best to be quite consistent. So first stopping ads from SCO / Caldera /
Xenix /etc. seems right to me.

The 2003 Kernel Developers Summit

mmarq — Thu, 31 Jul 2003 19:55:07 +0000

Dont worry!... Linus & Company dont code whit their feet.

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tekNico — Thu, 24 Jul 2003 07:29:50 +0000

> Get some style, please, people! ;-)

Go away. ;^P

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robot101 — Thu, 24 Jul 2003 01:01:33 +0000

Yeah, just read the lot. Very impressive, very cool to see what's going on and what's planned. Great coverage, thanks!

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Quazatron — Wed, 23 Jul 2003 16:04:17 +0000

What I don't get is this:

What's the deal with the sandals and white socks?

I know kernel developers are supposed to be informal people, but come on!
Get some style, please, people! ;-)

Let's not forget

JoeBuck — Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:22:05 +0000

This is the technical summit, not the legal/business issues summit. Still, I'm sure that there will be lots of quiet conversations about what to do. It might be best if the kernel copyright holders empower Linux International (or some other body) to deal with the legal issues, just as Linus has done for trademark enforcement.

At some point, some body with official standing is going to need to contest the issue in the press, and possibly issue official announcements, for example, that SCO is in breach of the GPL and the Linux copyright holders are invoking clause 4, and threaten similar action against anyone who publicly pressures anyone to obtain an SCO license in order to "legally" run Linux (as such pressures are an attempt to sublicense a GPLed work). The kernel developers should be insulated from this ugliness, but we can't let SCO go around extorting licenses from people without objecting.

Let's not forget

dwalters — Tue, 22 Jul 2003 14:38:16 +0000

LOL!

In all seriousness, though, why isn't SCO on the agenda at this summit? I'm sure SCO's actions weighs very heavily on the minds of most of the kernel developers who will be attending the summit, and if the kernel developers put their collective brains (and copyrights) behind it, I'm sure they could come up with some effective counter-attack.

Let's not forget

hjweth — Tue, 22 Jul 2003 14:24:26 +0000

None of this would be possible without SCO, which has provided all the participants with scripts (with pronunciation guides), so they can sound like they know about all these complicated teknology.

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mmarkov — Tue, 22 Jul 2003 06:04:30 +0000

Is there any site with pictures or
even better, audio/video recordings
of the meetings? Assuming such
exist, of course :)

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pj — Tue, 22 Jul 2003 05:21:05 +0000

Thanks! Thanks to LWN and Mr. Corbet especially for covering this! I'm mostly a novice at kernel programming, but I really enjoy hearing what issues are being discussed among the people doing the lion's share of the work.