[FFmpeg-devel] libossupport status

Diego Biurrun diego
Thu Dec 27 12:31:27 CET 2007


On Wed, Dec 26, 2007 at 08:56:45PM -0500, Rich Felker wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 26, 2007 at 10:51:40PM +0000, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> > > I'm no Linux apologist. Linux sucks. They should fix their broken OS
> > > and until they do I'll keep flaming them.
> > 
> > Why don't you write your own kernel?  If you, and do it better, then
> > maybe someone will start listening to you.
> 
> Someday I will but there are more important things in life than
> software. The design is mostly laid out though. However I doubt anyone
> will listen anyway. Most folks care more about meaningless benchmarks
> and gimmicky features than absolute robustness and security with
> proofs thereof.

The world is waiting for security proofs of all but the most trivial
programs.

Please take this as the good-intentioned advice this is meant to be, but
the problem I personally have with your rants is that I have yet to see
you finish a project.

Diego




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