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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!ix.netcom.com!netcom.com!adt From: adt@netcom.com (Anthony D. Tribelli) Subject: Re: GPL (was Re: Linux vs FreeBSD) Message-ID: <adtDJstoq.J7u@netcom.com> Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest) X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1] References: <489kuu$rbo@pelican.cs.ucla.edu> <DJ6IJE.78D@nntpa.cb.att.com> <4a54u5$jj5@josie.abo.fi> <4ahtib$ckq@helena.mt.net> <4alpl5$a39@klaava.helsinki.fi> <4amjau$np@crl.crl.com> <adtDJn6J0.CHv@netcom.com> <poulosioDJnqHG.IoA@netcom.com> Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1995 20:17:13 GMT Lines: 31 Sender: adt@netcom2.netcom.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.advocacy:30728 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:10719 Mad Max (poulosio@netcom.com) wrote: : : : Geesh, this guy must be cringing - I think I'd crawl in a hole and not come : : : out if Linus himself flamed *me* for being ignorant. : : It is more likely that someone is laughing at you for believing Linus : : actually made the post. Could have been him, probably wasn't IMHO. : In My Pompous Opinion(tm) it looks like Linus did make the post. Here's a : copy, headers and all: I respect your opinion, but you obviously have more faith in a few lines of text at the beginning of a file than I do :-). : If you suspect a forgery occured, check the headers. You might avoid : being proven wrong. "Proven" is a little overconfident. It is not that I suspect forgeries all the time, I just keep an open mind towards pranks. Headers don't necessarily prove anything other than less competent pranksters were not involved. I don't really care who wrote something. An argument either makes sense or it does not. An argument is either backed up by verifiable data or it is not. A "Linus" signature does not add to or subtract from the credibility of the argument, or in this case enhance the "flame". Tony -- ------------------ Tony Tribelli adtribelli@acm.org