let's stop with the language police [LWN.net]

let's stop with the language police

Posted Mar 28, 2007 21:25 UTC (Wed) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330)
Parent article: Ted Ts'o wins FSF award

A lot of us pay for LWN, let's not continue to pollute it with the same repetitive, content-free threads. We all know that the FSF has a thing about language; it is not news, it is not worthy of comment, and it particularly isn't worth arguing about.

The FSF is giving its highest honor to a Linux kernel hacker, and listing that contribution first. Yes, there are a number of conflicts (concerning language, DRM, GPLv3, etc) but the message is that despite these differences, it's a community, and it's nice sometimes to honor what the various sides have in common.

let's stop with the language police

Posted Mar 29, 2007 9:37 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Well, personally I think Kerberos is probably the single most influential (and amazing) thing Ted has ever done. But whichever thing you focus on, he certainly deserves this award.