A few months ago, we looked at Linus Torvalds in his own words, which was surprisingly popular (for a filler . So following the same approach (i.e. too busy to write something original today , what are the top-ten best mailing list posts in the history of free/open source software?

This is pretty difficult to say of course, so here are ten coolest posts that spring to mind. If you can think of a better one, please do paste a link in the comments.

10. Martin Bligh and Andrew Morton almost manage to ban binary kernel blobs.

9. Discussion on the Debian bugs mailing list about RMS VS VRMS.

8. Ingo Molner produces an estimate of What is the Linux kernel worth?

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