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Submission + - The story of dealing with 33 attorneys general

Submitted by microbee on Friday August 20, 2010 @11:29AM

microbee writes: Early this year, Topix, a popular community forum, faced investigation from 33 state attorneys general for charging for 'expedited review'. It was settled on Auguest 9th. Today Tech Crunch posted an article in which Topix CEO Chris Tolles talks about his experience with dealing with these attorneys general.

Submission + - Kernel hackers on ext3/4 afte 2.6.29 release

Submitted by microbee on Tuesday March 24, 2009 @07:41PM

microbee writes: Following the Linux kernel 2.6.29 release, several famous kernel hackers have raised complaints upon what seems to be a long-time performance problem related to ext3. Alan Cox, Ingo Molnar, Andrew Morton, Andi Keen, Theodore Tso, and of course Linus Torvalds have all participated. It may shed some light on the status of Linux filesystems. For example, Linus Torvalds commented on the corruption caused by writeback mode, calling it "idiotic".

Submission + - Linus on binary kernel modules

Submitted by microbee on Thursday December 14, 2006 @05:07AM

microbee writes: On LKML's periodic GPL vs binary kernel module discussion, Andrew Morton hinted that he favors refusing to load binary modules in 12 months. Greg KH then posted a patch to do exactly that. Surprisingly Linus chimed in and called it "stupid" and "political agenda", and even compared it with RIAA. Later in the same thread Greg withdrew his patch and apologized for not having thought through.

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