Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Sun, 02 Nov 2008 16:33:39 -0200, Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
>> OTOH, I read about a developer who quit contributing to the Linux kernel
>> because he was tired about devs caring about companies saying
>> $BULLSHT_BENCHMARK now gives lower results, instead of caring about the
>> desktop becoming faster for users. (it was about lowering latency and
>> improving the process scheduler, which would give better speed to the
>> desktop)
> 
> I hadn't read that one...

Found link:

http://apcmag.com/why_i_quit_kernel_developer_con_kolivas.htm

This is the part I was referring to:

"And there are all the obvious bug reports. They're afraid to mention these.
How scary do you think it is to say 'my Firefox tabs open slowly since the
last CPU scheduler upgrade'? To top it all off, the enterprise users are
the opposite. Just watch each kernel release and see how quickly some
$bullshit_benchmark degraded by .1% with patch $Y gets reported. See also
how quickly it gets attended to."

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