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1. Bradley M. Kuhn Greg K-H

   #Corbet at #ELC2012 quotes @gregkh's blog from 1 year ago: http://ur1.ca/362xt re: #Ralink working upstream. Corbet says this isn't uncommon

   about 3 months ago from web
   • Bradley M. Kuhn Linux , Red Hat , The GNU General Public License

     At #ELC2012 #Corbet reminds everyone !RedHat's #RHEL !Linux release is !GPL compliant but "not nice" (My old blog on it is at ur1.ca/3gxju )

     about 3 months ago
   • Bradley M. Kuhn

     #ELC2012: #Corbet "last March, Linus threw a temper tantrum. Not uncommon,but this was a big one, saying "ARM community needs to get a grip"

     about 3 months ago
   • Bradley M. Kuhn

     #ELC2012: #Corbet: "For years, we've asked the embedded community to give code back…& now many are doing it." But needs more cleanup work!

     about 3 months ago
   • Bradley M. Kuhn Linux

     #ELC2012: #Corbet jokes about userspace stuff being pulled into !Linux tree, pontificating:"Will they eventually just pull #LibreOffice in?"

     about 3 months ago
   • Bradley M. Kuhn

     #ELC2012: #Corbet says: "we need to build a fully Free platform, but ∃ still pockets of resistance to this". He gives an example on a slide…

     about 3 months ago
   • Bradley M. Kuhn

     … #Corbet quotes example of resistance to freedom in mobile: #Qualcomm's #Charlebois: "Mobile space is about proprietary drivers". #ELC2012

     about 3 months ago
   • Sander Linux

     @bkuhn sounds familiar. Was he at FOSDEM or Linux.conf.au giving the same/simular speech?

     about 3 months ago
   • Bradley M. Kuhn Linux

     #ELC2012: #Corbet has a slide w/ a tombstone: Big Kernel Lock 1996-2011 "We Thought you Were With Us Forever" The audience applauds. !Linux

     about 3 months ago
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   • Bradley M. Kuhn Free Software Foundation

     #ELC2012: #Corbet gives what's effectively an !FSF -style "Who's trusted in trusted computing?" lecture in his #UEFI portion of talk.

     about 3 months ago
   • Bradley M. Kuhn

     #ELC2012: #Corbet says "#ext4 is not going to fade away as people keep hacking on it, it will continue." But #btrfs devs ask "Why?"

     about 3 months ago
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     tekk

     @bkuhn reason: because people use ext4, same reason ext2 still exists when 3 has been around for forever ;)

     about 3 months ago
   • Bradley M. Kuhn

     #ELC2012: #Corbet sadly glosses over that #UEFI compromise doesn't allow for installing for your own keys. But has funny joke about it…

     about 3 months ago
   • Bradley M. Kuhn

     … #Corbet: "Booting capabilities under #UEFI will now sadly be left to the UI design abilities of BIOS engineers". #ELC2012 audience laugh.

     about 3 months ago
   • Bradley M. Kuhn

     #ELC2012: #Corbet: "Some parts of Linux have reached a truly scary level of complexity" & "this sort of complexity kills operating systems".

     about 3 months ago
   • Bradley M. Kuhn

     #ELC2012: #Corbet says "We do not take the security problem serious enough" making reference to kernel.org compromise.

     about 3 months ago
   • Alexandre Oliva

     @bkuhn IOW (MSNBC/MSBBC headline for this): Jon Corbet says Linux is going to die ;-)

     about 3 months ago
   • Bradley M. Kuhn Linux , Greg K-H

     #ELC2012: #Corbet jokes: "What's @gregkh up to at new !Linux Foundation job, given that his first act was to send patches to #LibreOffice?"

     about 3 months ago