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The conclusion of the GPLv3 process

The conclusion of the GPLv3 process

Posted Jul 5, 2007 23:06 UTC (Thu) by RobSeace (subscriber, #4435)
In reply to: The conclusion of the GPLv3 process by Tet
Parent article: The conclusion of the GPLv3 process

Are you making some kind of clever joke about the GPL2 being related to a toilet (the actual original meaning of "kludge")?? If so, I'm not gonna even touch that one... ;-)

Or, do you mean the TMRC definition of "a crock that works"? If so, I tend to see it as more as the "clever trick to solve a nasty case" of kluge, instead... *shrug*


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Cludgie

Posted Jul 6, 2007 0:43 UTC (Fri) by xoddam (subscriber, #2322) [Link]

> a toilet (the actual original meaning of "kludge")

That's not "kludge", that's "cludgie", with two syllables,
and with a well-known linguistic origin, even if no-one is
quite sure of the long-term etymology:

http://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scots_slang

It may or may not be related to "kluge"/"kludge".

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