From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: Yasuaki Kudo <yasu@yasuaki.com>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: linux-libre updates, timeliness
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2020 15:54:29 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201009195429.GA1799@jasmine.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C5D2F80A-00DD-4F71-A46C-1CA1FEEF2C77@yasuaki.com>
On Wed, Oct 07, 2020 at 06:32:34AM +0900, Yasuaki Kudo wrote:
> But I was intrigued, that it felt like a situation where a vegetarian would order a pizza from a restaurant that doesn't offer a vegetarian option so he has to painstakingly remove meat from it, while it would have been better if the cook could make it without the meat in the first place 😄
>
> Is above a fair analogy for the Linux Kernel?
It's not unfair, but remember that it is just an analogy. Analogies are
very imprecise tools for understanding. It's reasonable to expect that a
restaurant would alter their recipes upon request, but Linux is not a
restaurant.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-09 20:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-30 22:45 linux-libre updates, timeliness Leo Famulari
2020-10-05 13:53 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-10-05 21:12 ` Yasuaki Kudo
2020-10-06 14:48 ` Leo Famulari
2020-10-06 21:32 ` Yasuaki Kudo
2020-10-09 19:54 ` Leo Famulari [this message]
2020-10-06 14:49 ` Leo Famulari
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