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I can understand what you are saying to an extent. If you have an idea and implementation and it works then who cares about status. On the other hand this project is at the CORE of many other things...almost the entire FOSS community. A mistake here is crucial. So it wouldn't be wise to let anyone just come in and add some major component to the code that hasn't demonstrated dedication to the project and very very sound abilities. Otherwise you risk introducing bugs, security holes, code that won't be maintained and possibly even planted ideas by parties with other interests.

However saying that this scrutiny somehow keeps the project from being free and open is incorrect. There is nothing stopping a person from developing their patch and releasing it as their own branch of the kernel geared towards some specific purpose. At least I don't know of anything stopping them. Anyone can see and modify the code. But the core branch of the project has to remain clean. This actually allows people the freedom to try a specialized kernel knowing they have the clean core branch to fall back to.

Posted by: storm14k   Posted on: 08/18/08 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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