No range seems safe now [LWN.net]

No range seems safe now

Posted Apr 3, 2009 22:28 UTC (Fri) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091)
In reply to: GCC debates project governance by nix
Parent article: GCC debates project governance

We cannot even trust subscribers any more, not even those in the subscriber#<10k range... Is even the <5k range safe? Nix?

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No range seems safe now

Posted Apr 3, 2009 23:57 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Certainly the sub-5000 range is no oasis of sanity if that range includes
me! (Although Robert 'shares RMS's initials' Stockmann has been a net.kook
for a long, long time: I can remember him from only a few weeks after I
got on the net for the first time, and he was just the same then. Though
this was a particularly impressive outburst even by his standards.)

... but, no. There is no safety. It's contagious: in six months' time
it'll reach down into the hundreds and start attacking contributors too.
In a year's time the rot will have spread to subscriber #1, and corbet
will release the source code to the all-new LWN, with commenting
restricted to people with names containing the letter 'A', a colour scheme
of radioactive pink and puce...

... written in ASP.NET.

And it's all my fault.

Er, sorry?

Thanks for the laugh

Posted Apr 4, 2009 9:26 UTC (Sat) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link]

So we get a LWN Flying Circus edition and source code? Too good to be true! :D

No range seems safe now

Posted Apr 6, 2009 13:52 UTC (Mon) by fatrat (subscriber, #1518) [Link]

It had the virtue of being a funny rant, even if unintentionally so.