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Linus codes up a patch manager

Posted Apr 8, 2005 18:34 UTC (Fri) by tomsi (subscriber, #2306)
In reply to: Linus codes up a patch manager by sbergman27
Parent article: Linus codes up a patch manager

You are getting close.
I had never heard about Goodwins law before, so for the other two readers who haven't heard about it - here is the Wikipedia entry

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Posted Apr 8, 2005 18:45 UTC (Fri) by ncm (subscriber, #165) [Link]

Doesn't mentioning Godwin's law count, itself, as an instance of its preconditions? I.e. maybe any thread in which Godwin's law has been mentioned is dead, too.

Linus codes up a patch manager

Posted Apr 8, 2005 18:49 UTC (Fri) by sbergman27 (subscriber, #10767) [Link]

Explicitly invoking it is considered bad form and causes the invoker to automatically lose the argument. That's why I said "I hope I didn't just invoke..." ;-)