My first DontZap use case while testing F11 beta

Dave Airlie airlied at redhat.com
Fri Apr 10 12:15:44 UTC 2009


On Fri, 2009-04-10 at 10:54 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 3:35 PM, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 at freenet.de> wrote:
> >> Correct - my opinion still is: upstream's decision is silly.
> > 
> > Anyone propose a patch that moves the zap to something suitably
> > impossible to press accidentally… like ctrl-alt-backspace then type
> > killxnow? :)
> As I wrote several time before in this threat: To me, c-a-bs is an 
> emergency button. Any additional action but "immediately killing X" 
> voids this aspect.
> 
> >> Also, provided the hazzle this issue has caused, I am deeply convinced the
> >> change would have been reverted in Fedora, if Fedora package maintainer
> >> wasn't a RH employee.
> > 
> > Oh no! RedHat has been subverted by the conspiracy of emacs users?!
> No, experience in Fedora has told many @RedHat's simply don't care about 
> opinion but their own.
> 
> It's what is commonly known as "Red Hat's arrogance and ignorance".

I think you got the causality wrong, Red Hat hired us because we were
arrogant dicks that are very good at what we do in our own opinions.

We didn't become that way after we joined Red Hat.

Dave.




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