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Story: The ups and downs of life with Linus

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Posted by: ThoreauHD (Wednesday 2 March 2005, 7:52 AM)

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Alan and Linux are very well respected. And I suspect that Linus would say that he isn't a beta testing engineer. Because he isn't. Not that it has much significance since the entire planet beta tests and submits patches.

Even engineers screw up too, in reference to "secret" patches that Linus makes and is undocumented. This may be true, I don't know.

But what I do know is that engineers like Alan are not infallible either. RedHat 8.0 with an exclusive mutant gcc compiler come to mind. It essentially made the OS useless since no app in the world, save RedHat's own recompiled selected apps, would run on it. That was a step up from an undocumented patching mistakes from my point of view. Linus never blew up my OS with his patches.

But credit where credit is due. Both developers(project managers) and engineers(bug fixers) are complimentary and check and balance each other. I respect Alan and Linux very much and in equal parts. End.

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