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Linus codes up a patch manager

Posted Apr 8, 2005 18:45 UTC (Fri) by ncm (subscriber, #165)
In reply to: Linus codes up a patch manager by tomsi
Parent article: Linus codes up a patch manager

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.

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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..." ;-)