Firstly, I feel that you and your partner in ill manners
yodaiken@chelm.cs.nmt.edu are being way too hard on this guy. It's one
thing if he's mistaken and you're trying to help him see his error - but
I don't see that.
Actually, I think Larry and Victor have been remarkably restrained, in
the face of some of Mr. Gooch's mail to this list. Larry and Victor
both have a lot of experience in this area, and quite frankly their
opinions carry a lot more weight with me at least than Mr. Gooch.
Sometimes mathematicians get fed up when people repeatedly make claims
that they can square the circle, and demand that their proofs must be
right unless they can spot the error in the proof. While said
mathematicians may end up being brusque dealing with such claims on
sci.math, it doesn't change the fact that the mathematicians are right.
(It's amsuing to see these folks claim that there must be a conspiracy
to suppress their "wonderful" discovery --- and no, mathematicians
aren't the only ones who get these kinds of claims. Physists get it all
the time with perpetual motion machines.)
He thinks it provides benefit, let him prove it. You and your fellow
flamer feel it does not, then disprove it.
Mr. Gooch is the one who has the burden of proof, since he's the one
that wants to add the additional complexity to the kernel. He has been
claiming that he has met this standard of proof. In the judgement of
Larry, Victor, as well as myself, he has not.
In any case, we have more important fish to fry as we try to get the
last of the polishing done before we release Linux 2.2. Can we put
aside flames about whether we should be making changes to the Linux
scheduler until after 2.2 goes out the door? Surely I hope most people
agree this is not the time to add a destablizing change to the kernel!
- Ted
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