By: TREZA (no.delete@this.ema.il), August 10, 2014 4:27 am
Room: Moderated Discussions
Linus Torvalds (torvalds.delete@this.linux-foundation.org) on August 9, 2014 1:36 pm wrote:
> So I'm dead serious when I say that anybody who talks about the alleged huge advantages of simple decoding,
> but then blithely ignores the advantages of backwards compatibility, is a f*cking moron.
>
> And there's a lot of those f*cking morons in this thread. Some of them double down on their stupidity
> by claiming that it's a big advantage that you can jettison all that legacy baggage.
>
> Linus "rant over" Torvalds
>
Ergo, Intel is dead in phones, tablets, and many other kinds of embedded stuff.
;-)
> So I'm dead serious when I say that anybody who talks about the alleged huge advantages of simple decoding,
> but then blithely ignores the advantages of backwards compatibility, is a f*cking moron.
>
> And there's a lot of those f*cking morons in this thread. Some of them double down on their stupidity
> by claiming that it's a big advantage that you can jettison all that legacy baggage.
>
> Linus "rant over" Torvalds
>
Ergo, Intel is dead in phones, tablets, and many other kinds of embedded stuff.
;-)