Who controls glibc? [LWN.net]

Who controls glibc?

Posted May 9, 2018 0:50 UTC (Wed) by trentbuck (guest, #66356)
Parent article: Who controls glibc?

The comment should have been removed anyway on the grounds that it's bloody confusing:

* Which federation are they talking about? Germany? Mexico? Australia? Russia? The EU?

* If this text was added in the 1990s, surely the draft bill was either enacted or rejected by now? It should have linked directly to the draft bill, so that readers can go straight there and check its current status. If that's not possible, at least cite the name of the draft bill!

There's no need to point out that the alleged "joke" is tasteless, insensitive, irrelevant, and unfunny, because the text can be removed already on the grounds of being Americentric and out-of-date.

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Who controls glibc?

Posted May 9, 2018 3:40 UTC (Wed) by k8to (guest, #15413) [Link] (2 responses)

It is sadly not really out of date, but the obscurity and Americentrism seem fair commentary.

Who controls glibc?

Posted May 9, 2018 4:01 UTC (Wed) by mtaht (guest, #11087) [Link]

I feel in this thread that everyone has jumped the shark.

Here, have some Carlin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuEQixrBKCc

And some bill hicks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYwV0fqEQrw

After getting in a good belly laugh - GET BACK TO WORK.

Who controls glibc?

Posted May 11, 2018 8:59 UTC (Fri) by nim-nim (subscriber, #34454) [Link]

That's actually the most offensive part of it, that participants in an i18n software project, think their country is so much more important than everyone else’s, that they deserve to hijack the project public technical documentation in i18n English, and make it a vehicle for statements on their own internal petty political conflicts.

And then they compound it by discussing endlessly if the statement is in good or poor taste, without caring if it is smart or kind to treat contributors and users of other countries as second class humans.