Re: Linus strikes back :-)

[Filip Brcic]

Дана Saturday 22 April 2006 21:22, Thomas Bushnell BSG је написао(ла):
> "Gianluca Guida" <glguida@gmail.com> writes (quoting Linus Torvalds):
> > "I claim that Mach people (and apparently FreeBSD) are incompetent
> > idiots. Playing games with VM is bad. memory copies are _also_ bad,
> > but quite frankly, memory copies often have _less_ downside than VM
> > games, and bigger caches will only continue to drive that point home."
>
> It's awfully hard to know what that means.  What is "playing games
> with VM"?
>
> Whether cloning is a good thing or not depends on the particular
> hardware.  Is Linux saying that it is wrong to clone on Sparcs, since
> on later Wintel architectures it will be wrong?  Perhaps cloning is
> better in some cases, and copying is better in some cases, and that's
> that.

Linus thinks that his way is the only good way. Every other way is wrong and 
therefore idiotic. That's why he says that Mach and FreeBSD people are 
idiots. When Linus says idiot, you should understand it as "someone who 
thinks different from Linus".

> Admittedly, doing cloning correctly takes skill.  It's a shame that
> those who had that skill are described as "incopetent idiots"

Why do you bother replying to Linus's mambo-jumbo tautologies without a proof? 
I have looked several conversations with Linus on various topics (most 
recently about his disapproval of GPLv3). His way of reasoning and talking 
with people can best be described with a saying: "I have already made my 
mind. Don't confuse me with facts!".

Cheers :)
Brcha

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