Re: Give Bartlomiej a break! (Re: Impressions of IDE 98?)

From: Thunder from the hill (thunder@ngforever.de)
Date: Sun Jul 21 2002 - 03:26:48 EST


Hi,

On Sun, 21 Jul 2002, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> Regarding constitutional monarchy, that's high-grade horse shit. LT has
                                                                    ^^

>From Jargon File (4.3.0, 30 APR 2001) [jargon]:

  Linus /leen'us'/ or /lin'us'/, not /li:'nus/ Linus Torvalds, the author
     of {Linux}. Nobody in the hacker culture has been as readily recognized
     by first name alone since Ken (Thompson).

So I think calling him LT is way, way wrong if you think he's worth the
comparison to ken.

> always been the benevolent dictator [1] of his tree.

That's nothing that's speaking against the monarchy. However, I think he's
still bound to do things that he just has to do, because otherwise he'd be
hung ;-)

                                                        Regards,
                                                        Thunder

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