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[Posted December 15, 2010 by corbet]

Many programmers have created and promoted the computer programming language known as "open source code" to be shared on public sites at no cost, but licensing issues are murky.

-- Reuters

systemd documentation is actually pretty good and mostly comprehensive. Humble as I am I would even say that it is vastly superior to the majority of all open source projects. If you want to criticise us on something, pick something else, please.

-- Lennart Poettering

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Posted Dec 16, 2010 8:25 UTC (Thu) by squidgit (guest, #42190) [Link] (1 responses)

I once spent a very confus{ed,ing} half-hour with a colleague who had read the phase "Python has an open-source compiler" as an organisation 'Python' creating a compiler for a language called "Open Source".

Isn't the English language graaand.

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Posted Dec 16, 2010 19:02 UTC (Thu) by wingo (guest, #26929) [Link]

Everyone knows python *is* the open-source compiler bundled as part of CMU common lisp!

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Posted Dec 16, 2010 19:38 UTC (Thu) by wookey (guest, #5501) [Link] (2 responses)

A marvellous new definition of 'humble' :-)

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Posted Dec 16, 2010 21:39 UTC (Thu) by rvfh (guest, #31018) [Link] (1 responses)

He did not say he was humble. I think he cleverly played with the fact that he is (at least in his own eyes) not. I could obviously be completely mistaken...

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Posted Dec 17, 2010 11:09 UTC (Fri) by dgm (subscriber, #49227) [Link]

> He did not say he was humble.

He did, but he did not meant it. How ironic.