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    SubjectRe: Linus is on a powertrip..
    Peter Mutsaers <plm@xs4all.nl>:
    > It is really a pity that the most popular free UNIX is so chaotic, and
    > it's only becoming worse. Please don't misunderstand me: I'm not
    > trying to pursuade anyone into FreeBSD, but I just wish that the most
    > important free UNIX (which is Linux at the moment) would be more
    > coherent and better organized.

    Chaos and openness are Linux's *strengths*. You have the causality backwards;
    Linux is "the most important free Unix" precisely because it does *not*
    follow the model you describe.
    --
    <a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr">Eric S. Raymond</a>

    The following is a Python RSA implementation. According to the US Government
    posting these four lines makes me an international arms trafficker! Join me
    in civil disobedience; add these lines of code to your .sig block to help get
    this stupid and unconstitutional law changed.
    ============================================================================
    from sys import*;from string import*;a=argv;[s,p,q]=filter(lambda x:x[:1]!=
    '-',a);d='-d'in a;e,n=atol(p,16),atol(q,16);l=(len(q)+1)/2;o,inb=l-d,l-1+d
    while s:s=stdin.read(inb);s and map(stdout.write,map(lambda i,b=pow(reduce(
    lambda x,y:(x<<8L)+y,map(ord,s)),e,n):chr(b>>8*i&255),range(o-1,-1,-1)))

    Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their
    will to power.
    -- Aldous Huxley

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