New posting rules for Fedora List, From Linus.
Richard S. Crawford
rscrawford at mossroot.com
Fri Apr 1 15:41:26 UTC 2005
The elder gods, manifesting through Henry Hartley, recently decreed:
> On Fri, 01 Apr, 2005 at 9:25 AM someone posing as Linux Torvaldz said:
>
>>> Rule #1 Posting content format
>>> All posts to the list from this point forward must be set to have
>>> a fixed display width of 4,317 inches (or the metric equivalent,
>>> 6 millimeters).
>
> Although the rest of this seems reasonable (for an arbitrarily large
> value of reasonable), I think someone needs to review his imperial
> to metric conversions. 4,317 inches (or 4.317 as we would say here
> in the good ol' USA) is closer to 10.97 cm.
>
> Hey, wait a minute, if Linus really wrote that, he would have spelled
> millimeters as millimetres. Is this a joke? ;)
It wasn't the real Linus. Sheesh. According to CNN, the *real* Linus is
considering relicensing Linux to a closed proprietary model.
--
Sláinte,
Richard S. Crawford (AIM: Buffalo2K)
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