Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder2.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Bill Sloman Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: OT: Linix goes politics Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2024 12:30:21 +1100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 22 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2024 03:30:35 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="bb9199f408c52134a3fd2a62962a1ad5"; logging-data="3587299"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX194vFybJ8TRs+rtjPSFG4/np/hUWVpL9i8=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:4imBFESDig/cxiviGJyamW6zEtc= Content-Language: en-US X-Antivirus: Norton (VPS 241025-4, 26/10/2024), Outbound message In-Reply-To: X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Bytes: 1768 On 26/10/2024 3:01 am, john larkin wrote: > On Fri, 25 Oct 2024 04:12:41 GMT, Jan Panteltje > wrote: > Software seems to degenerate into language wars. Software is a much larger area than the languages used to write it. The problem with the Russian contributions to Linux is that there's been a least one back door slipped into Linux by a contributor, and nobody wants any more to get in. The guy who found that back door did a very neat job - he'd found an odd feature in some performance he'd measured, and tracked down what was causing it. -- Bill Sloman, Sydney