Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: Tux The Penguin Is Gonna Get Medieval On Yo' Ass =) | Date | Sun, 16 Jun 1996 02:01:37 +0800 | From | Bruce Murphy <> |
| |
>>>>> "DB" == Dave Baker <dsb@greebo.onlinemagic.co.uk> writes:
>> >> ud$$be. >> .$$$$$$$??Tb >> .$$$$$$$$!:!S$ >> J$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ >> $B**?$$$"^"!$$$ >> $ . `$$ . ^$$$F >> 4 $: @U $Nr $$$F >> 4k'!!!!!!T.x$$$F >> 4!!!!!!!!!!!$$$$ >> 4P!!!!X!!!!"$>"$r >> :F `!!!!~ 4$ud$ >> :R" t$$$B >>[snip!] >> >>Now lests all put this in our sig files and post to the FreeBSD lists >>alot =)
DB>I wouldn't normally leap into something such as this, but am I the DB>only one who finds all this penguin stuff rather rediculous, even DB>bordering on immature?
When Linux becomes a mature OS...
DB>I must admit to not having had time to read this list as thoroughly DB>as maybe I would have liked over the last week or so, but I did find DB>it distressing that "TUX" was so fanatically accepted ... am I (surely DB>not!) the only one to spell Linus' surname with an 'a' and not an 'o'? DB>Am I the only one who finds the possessive distressing? Yes, Linus did DB>start the ball rolling and I'd be the first to be amazed at all he has DB>done over the years to make linux what it is today ... but is it HIS? I DB>would like to think not, and thus find "Torvolds UniX" <sic> rather DB>inappropriate.
Hardly, Linus has been the coordinating force behind what woudl probably be one of the larger distributed programming efforts. Basically he managed something that IBM's staffers couldn't in a million years (so who is really surprised here)
[crunch]
DB>dave baker
You're not! I hold that you're one of RMS' nyms...
ps. In honour of the above, I nominate this month, the month of release of Linux 2 as the "Mythical Penguin Month"
-- Packrat (BSc/BE;COSO;Wombat Implementor) Nihil illegitemi carborvndvm.
|  |