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Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2002 02:26:48 -0600 (MDT)
From: Thunder from the hill <thunder@ngforever.de>
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Subject: Re: Give Bartlomiej a break!  (Re: Impressions of IDE 98?)
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Hi,

On Sun, 21 Jul 2002, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> Regarding constitutional monarchy, that's high-grade horse shit.  LT has
                                                                    ^^

>From Jargon File (4.3.0, 30 APR 2001) [jargon]:

  Linus /leen'us'/ or /lin'us'/, not /li:'nus/ Linus Torvalds, the author
     of {Linux}. Nobody in the hacker culture has been as readily recognized
     by first name alone since Ken (Thompson).

So I think calling him LT is way, way wrong if you think he's worth the 
comparison to ken.

> always been the benevolent dictator [1] of his tree.

That's nothing that's speaking against the monarchy. However, I think he's 
still bound to do things that he just has to do, because otherwise he'd be 
hung ;-)

							Regards,
							Thunder
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