Sean wrote: > On Fri, April 29, 2005 2:54 pm, Tom Lord said: > > >>The process should not rely on the security of every developer's >>machine. The process should not rely on simply trusting quality >>contributors by reputation (e.g., most cons begin by establishing >>trust and continue by relying inappropriately on >>trust-without-verification). This relates to why Linus' >>self-advertised process should be raising yellow and red cards all >>over the place: either he is wasting a huge amount of his own time and >>should be largely replaced by an automated patch queue manager, or he >>is being trusted to do more than is humanly possible. >> > > > Ahh, you don't believe in the development model that has produced Linux! > Personally I do believe in it, so much so that I question the value of > signatures at the changeset level. To me it doesn't matter where the code > came from just so long as it works. Lawyers must love you... That approach doesn't work in court. Related: look at the new software patent law, it ignores the existing law, judge and jury, and lets MS avoid paying the judgement for a suit it already lost. See Computerworld etc for details. -- -bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com) "The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer" -me - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Tue May 03 02:15:43 2005
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