Has cash corrupted open source? (The Register)

Posted Aug 24, 2012 20:43 UTC (Fri) by bfields (subscriber, #19510)
In reply to: Has cash corrupted open source? (The Register) by bronson
Parent article: Has cash corrupted open source? (The Register)

Has cache corrupted my filesystem?

Posted Aug 24, 2012 22:18 UTC (Fri) by Beolach (guest, #77384) [Link]

This made me smile. Thank you.

Posted Aug 24, 2012 22:46 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] (1 responses)

Clearly you just need a good cash invalidation protocol.

Posted Aug 25, 2012 0:00 UTC (Sat) by oak (guest, #2786) [Link]

Several countries and banking systems have already been using that protocol:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation

Looking at the financial news, European Union may be adopting it too.

Posted Aug 25, 2012 3:58 UTC (Sat) by iabervon (subscriber, #722) [Link]

Yes, but Linus fixed it in commit 7658cc289288b8ae7dd2c2224549a048431222b3.