IBM Linux/390 patches

[Linus Torvalds]

In article < E120weu-00009s-00@pet >,
Peter Schulte-Stracke <Peter.Schulte-Stracke@t-online.de> wrote:
>
>(1)    The Linux/390 patches published by IBM come with their own 
>       binutils, gcc, libc, prior and public work notwithstanding.

So? They thought they could do a better job starting from scratch.

I don't know if they did, but it's not unreasonable.

>(4)    I request the IBM personnel to abide by the rules and to submit
>       their patches to the respective maintainer, and to merge them 
>       where appropiate with our work; in particular for binutils and
>       gcc I see no reason not to do so.

"abide by the rules"?

They did. The rules you mention you made up yourself.

I don't think you realize how hard it is for a large company to do
something like what they did - getting enough blessing to release AT
ALL. 

>(5)    The disdain demonstrated by the IBM employees cannot but hurt
>       our community, where the most exacting duties are executed for
>       nothing but just the consideration which is so utterly absent
>       from their conduct.  One surely cannot expect IBM or any
>       organization like it to act spontanously according to the
>       rules of quite a differing game; they need to be told and learn
>       to do so. This is as inevitable as it is often painful.

IBM seems to have done a good job, and you're complaining?

Open source is about people being able to do their own projects. It's
about NOT having to "go through channels" and have to worry about issues
like that. It's about empowering people to do what they want.

INCLUDING the big guys. 

		Linus