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From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org>
To: fche@redhat.com (Frank Ch. Eigler)
Cc: mec.gnu@mindspring.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [patch/copyright] lib/java.exp: update copyright years
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 03:21:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9003-Wed21Jul2004061952+0300-eliz@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <y0misciz85h.fsf@toenail.toronto.redhat.com> (fche@redhat.com)

> From: fche@redhat.com (Frank Ch. Eigler)
> Date: 20 Jul 2004 17:22:02 -0400
> 
> I am surprised to see how much effort is being expended on this, and
> how tiringly verbose it is.  This is like putting a long-winded
> ChangeLog message together for every spelling correction in a comment,
> then posting the patch, then discussing it for a while to debate
> English versus American spellings.  Process rigidity run amok!

I'd suggest to think again.  As paranoiac as this looks at first
glance, if the Linux kernel developers did something remotely
paranoiac since day one, they wouldn't be facing the ridiculous SCO/MS
lawsuits these days.  They seem to understand this now (contributors
are nowadays required to sign papers), but it's too late.


  reply	other threads:[~2004-07-21  3:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-07-19 21:32 Michael Elizabeth Chastain
2004-07-20 21:22 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2004-07-21  3:21   ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2004-07-21 11:53     ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2004-07-21 18:22       ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-07-21 19:54         ` Frank Ch. Eigler

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