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His response[^] to an online petition.
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TTFN - Kent
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Not sure about poet, blunt is more like it. A programmer-poet would have written the response in code 
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On the Penguin OS most finest
Prepare your nads to be minus
If you're part of non-fandom
And criticizing /dev/random
You're going to be neutered by linus
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Windows 8 is the resurrected version of Microsoft Bob. The only thing missing is the Fisher-Price logo.
- Harvey
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(disclaimer, I'm not a linux user/developer, I've installed linux once not long after it was released, a long, long time ago; and I've not followed the linux drama)
Linus is a bully; He did something technically quite wonderful when he first build linux and release that to the masses, but he's not the person to be put in front to market it (even to developers);
People like Miguel De Icaza (gnome, ...) did more for the Linux brand than Thorvals ever did.
Linux (kernel) will die from a internal civil war when he either quits or die of old (r)age.
(I have the same feeling about Stallman, a bitter old man, notwhistanding his computing skills)
I'd rather be phishing!
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Maximilien wrote: Linus is a bully; He did something technically quite wonderful when he first build linux and release that to the masses...
In that regard, he is a little like Jobs, in that he was somewhat of a visionary and was able to get other people to build on what he had done, and there is a significant empire there now after all these years. One difference though is that his product was always free. I think if he charged for it he would be a rich guy, perhaps on the order of Jobs or even Gates.
FWIW, Shuttleworth is somewhat doing it the other way around.
Windows 8 is the resurrected version of Microsoft Bob. The only thing missing is the Fisher-Price logo.
- Harvey
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I think Bjarne Stroustrup would be a more appropriate comparison.
When you look at conferences/keynotes done by Stroustrup, you see that he is as passionate about is language as is Linus is about his OS, but the way he present the product and the way he surrounds himself with great people that will continue the legacy (Herb Sutter, Scott Meyer, Alexandrescu, ... )
But maybe I'm not just as interested in Linux as I am about C++.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Interesting discussion. You are probably comparing apples with bananas. It seems Linus is like Gates without the money. Stroustrup is the real visionary.
Peter Wasser
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
Frank Zappa
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You seem to disagree with me but add to my point. I considered Linus Torvalds[^] to be similar to Steve Jobs[^] because both visionaries were bullies with their followers. Bjarne Stroustrup/[^] doesn't seem to carry the bully gene.
Windows 8 is the resurrected version of Microsoft Bob. The only thing missing is the Fisher-Price logo.
- Harvey
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Maximilien wrote: Linux (kernel) will die from a internal civil war when he either quits or die of old (r)age.
I think you're absolutely right there. The various Lini will go on, but the core might just shatter at that point. Also relevant was this item[^] from the Insider a week or so ago (yes, I'm plagiarizing myself, why do you ask?)
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TTFN - Kent
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Wow, he's cranky. Seems a bit over the top to me.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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From Excel 2010, when hiding the PERSONAL sheet (that holds the background macros etc for me) and closing excel:
"Do you want to save the changes you made to the Personal Macro Workbook? If you click Yes, the macros will be available the next time you start Microsoft Excel."
And the buttons?
"Save" "Don't Save" "Cancel"
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Quote: If you click Yes
Well, clearly that part does not apply to you and can be ignored.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Yeah - but which one ignores it? 
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Keep Clam And Proofread
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√(-1) 23 ∑ π...
And it was delicious.
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What gets me is that it states that you can either save the changes to the macro, or lose it altogether.
What if you want to retain the version without your changes?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Ah, I think I see the problem - the buttons should be "Abort", "Retry" and "Cancel".
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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"Abort", "Retry", and "Fail"
MSDOS[^] - and all of them did the same thing - made you bash your head on the keyboard!
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Some of them might be old, but then, hopefully they are not reposts.
"If the enemy is in range, so are you." - Infantry Journal
"It is generally inadvisable to eject directly over the area you just bombed." - U.S. Air Force Manual
"Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons." - General MacArthur
"You, you, and you.... Panic. The rest of you, come with me." - U.S. Marine Corp Gunnery Sgt.
"Tracers work both ways." - U.S. Army Ordnance
"Five second fuses only last three seconds." - Infantry Journal
"Any ship can be a minesweeper. Once."
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"Is there a problem, officer?"
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A couple more from Chesty Puller Col. USMC
"We're surrounded. That simplifies the problem."
"All right, they're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of
us, they're behind us...they can't get away this time"
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Private: "Sir! They have us surrounded."
Captain: "Excellent; we can attack in any direction!"
Software Zen: delete this;
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Milligan? Sounds like him.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Except they can get away. Guess that is military intellegence.
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Clifford Nelson wrote: military intellegence
An oxymoron!
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