Linus Torvalds (torvalds@linux-foundation.org) on 11/19/10 wrote:
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>someone (someone@somewhere.com) on 11/19/10 wrote:
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>>I wonder how unbiased you really can be on this issue.
>
>Nobody is ever really unbiased. Sure, I have my biases,
>and I'm sure that working for years on an in-order VLIW
>made me more aware of some of the issues than other people
>may be.
>
>But psycho-analyzing my reasons for detesting Itanium is
>kind of pointless, when the rest of the industry detests
>it too these days.

By "the rest of the industry" you clearly must mean Itanium
competitors because when it comes to customers more than
80 of the world's 100 largest corporations have bought and
deployed IPF systems. That doesn't sound like detest to me.

"Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes,
our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot
alter the state of facts and evidence." - John Adams