Re: The Linux kernel is run by king Linus, a total tyrant. My hero.

[Ivan Shmakov]

>>>>> Jeff-Relf Me <@.> writes:

[Cross-posting to news:news.misc and setting Followup-To: there
and to news:comp.os.linux.advocacy, while dropping most of
news:alt.os.linux.*, for the discussion at hand is hardly
relevant to any of them.]

[…]

> The Linux kernel is run by king Linus, a total tyrant. My hero.

And it's still possible for the “end user” to revert whatever
patch approved by Linus and use an unapproved one instead, as
well as to share the so changed kernel with every single
interested user on the planet.

[…]

> I wrote ( and you, Mr. "nospam", dismissed ):

> I've been coding DOS boxen since 1983, Windows since 1989.

[…]

> I write simulations/games for the ABA ( a.k.a. "The Bankers",
> "Stonier", "Graduate School of Banking" ). [ ABA.COM:
> http://www.aba.com/Pages/default.aspx ]

> « Jeff Relf was the programmer for the project and contributed to the
> design of administrative processes. » — BankExec™ 2009 Decision
> Manual, Copyright © 2011 (PDF) [
> http://bankexec.swgsb.org/manual/BXD_Decision_Manual.pdf ]

> Thousands of "graduate·students/executives", both here and abroad,
> have run "my" code ( I'm a "code monkey", not a banker ).

… And it's a shame that with all this experience, you keep
wasting your time doing such senseless (or, to put it
differently: stupid) things, as:

• cross-posting to a variety of distribution-specific
newsgroups, without even mentioning but one of the respective
distributions in the message itself;

• trying to provoke software bugs by introducing nonsensical
U+FEFF's; (BOM's within an octet sequence? seriously?);

• abusing Unicode characters for their appearance in a
particular font (which all the netnews readers will instantly
switch to, right?), instead of their meaning (double U+FF1C
for "wide left-pointing double angle quotation mark", and
similarly for double U+FF1E; U+22C5 DOT OPERATOR outside of
math formulae, as a "nice" substitute for U+00B7; etc.)

Why, shouldn't you try to begin substituting Cyrillic letters
for the similarly-looking Latin ones in your messages for a
change?

See, I began coding a decade later than you. Now, I hope for a
successful $20000 per person project within the next five years.
(Price's cut for the project will certainly be a free software
one.) Now, shouldn't you be doing something more impressive
than playing a sandbox battle with the fellow Usenetters?

[…]

--
FSF associate member #7257 http://freecode.com/~1gray/

[Ivan Shmakov]

>>>>> "JM" == Jeff-Relf Me <@.> writes:

[Cross-posting to news:news.misc.]

IS> And it's still possible for the “end user” to revert whatever patch
IS> approved by Linus and use an unapproved one instead, as well as to
IS> share the so changed kernel with every single interested user on
IS> the planet.

JM> Who has forked the Linux kernel away from "king Linus" ? I doubt
JM> that anyone could do that; not seriously, and not for long.

You mean, other than every other GNU/Linux distribution out
there? (Including Ubuntu.)

JM> He's king for a reason, and there's no heir apparent.

There is no such thing as the Linux monarchy.

JM> P. S. Newsgroups are GROUPS of people, not topics.

Newsgroups are groups of messages, with the selection criterion
being the presence of the newsgroup name in the Newsgroups:
header. The fact that NNTP makes it easy to follow a newsgroup,
but not a thread or author, isn't all that relevant.

JM> I don't like "encoded words" because they're not human readable.

What does it mean that “‘encoded’ words […] [a]re not human
readable”? Is ASCII readable? Or EBCDIC? Or КОИ-7?
Or Baudot code?

JM> The U+FeFF pair at the end of my "Subject:" line is there so gMail,
JM> Yahoo and Hotmail can sniff out the charset, UTF·8; otherwise, the
JM> charset (UTF·8) would be unknown.

Since when such a “guesswork” on the application part is
considered a sensible behavior?

JM> Serious user·agents handle it just fine; e. g. Mozilla Thunderbird,
JM> WindowsLiveMail and Google Groups, gMail, Yahoo, etc.

By “serious” do you mean “those I do like” specifically?

JM> More esoteric, parochial user·agents don't concern me.

… Similarly, are these latter labels reserved for the software
you personally do not like?

JM> "FULLWIDTH LESS-THAN SIGN", U+FF1C (＜) and U+FF1E (＞) work
JM> everywhere that matters; I tested them.

What do you mean by “[they] work”? For instance, how is

… Ivan⋅Shmakov wrote: ＜＜And it's still…

read by a speech synthesizer? Is it “Ivan Shmakov wrote colon
opening quote and it's still”, or is it “Ivan dot product
Shmakov wrote colon less than less than and it's still”?

JM> Likely, your newsreader ( Emacs ) can't display HTML

My newsreader (Gnus) tackles HTML in nearly the most perfect way
currently possible: by rendering it into plain text first with
Lynx. The latter is my Web browser of choice, BTW.

JM> /mixed·fonts;

How is the use of LESS-THAN signs in place of opening quotation
marks related to the font capabilities of any software
whatsoever?

JM> if so, too bad for you, I don't care.

Do you mean here that you don't care for the readers of your
messages? What's the purpose of posting them then?

IS> Why, shouldn't you try to begin substituting Cyrillic letters for
IS> the similarly-looking Latin ones in your messages for a change?

JM> I do exactly that, to avoid MicroSoft's censors.

And also to prevent anyone from easily Web-searching your
messages later, I guess.

JM> P. P. S. You're doing all the bitching, I'm not in "a sandbox
JM> battle".

I've seen a whole lot of your messages. Never I've seen an
attempt to create a constructive dialogue among them, but all
that often — futile persuasion, name-calling, and assumptions
that go plainly wrong (as in: everyone has a Facebook page.)
What is it all amounts to if not a sandbox battle?