RE: New posting rules for Fedora List, From Linus.

[Henry Hartley]

On Fri, 01 Apr, 2005 at 9:25 AM someone posing as Linux Torvaldz said:

> > Rule #1   Posting content format
> > All posts to the list from this point forward must be set to have
> > a fixed display width of 4,317 inches (or the metric equivalent,
> > 6 millimeters). 
Although the rest of this seems reasonable (for an arbitrarily large 
value of reasonable), I think someone needs to review his imperial 
to metric conversions.  4,317 inches (or 4.317 as we would say here
in the good ol' USA) is closer to 10.97 cm.

Hey, wait a minute, if Linus really wrote that, he would have spelled
millimeters as millimetres.  Is this a joke?  ;)

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Henry

New posting rules for Fedora List, From Linus.

On Apr 1, 2005 10:38 AM, Henry Hartley <henryhartley(a)westat.com&gt; wrote:
>  On Fri, 01 Apr, 2005 at 9:25 AM someone posing as Linux Torvaldz
> said:
>  
>  >> Rule #1   Posting content format
>  >> All posts to the list from this point forward must be set to have
>  >> a fixed display width of 4,317 inches (or the metric equivalent,
>  >> 6 millimeters).
>  
>  Although the rest of this seems reasonable (for an arbitrarily large
>  value of reasonable), I think someone needs to review his imperial
>  to metric conversions.  4,317 inches (or 4.317 as we would say here
>  in the good ol' USA) is closer to 10.97 cm.
>  
>  Hey, wait a minute, if Linus really wrote that, he would have spelled
>  millimeters as millimetres.  Is this a joke?  ;)
>  
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New posting rules for Fedora List, From Linus.

[Richard S. Crawford]

The elder gods, manifesting through Henry Hartley, recently decreed:
>  On Fri, 01 Apr, 2005 at 9:25 AM someone posing as Linux Torvaldz
> said:
>
> >> Rule #1   Posting content format
> >> All posts to the list from this point forward must be set to have
> >> a fixed display width of 4,317 inches (or the metric equivalent,
> >> 6 millimeters).
>
>  Although the rest of this seems reasonable (for an arbitrarily large
>  value of reasonable), I think someone needs to review his imperial
>  to metric conversions.  4,317 inches (or 4.317 as we would say here
>  in the good ol' USA) is closer to 10.97 cm.
>
>  Hey, wait a minute, if Linus really wrote that, he would have spelled
>  millimeters as millimetres.  Is this a joke?  ;) 
It wasn't the real Linus.  Sheesh.  According to CNN, the *real* Linus is
considering relicensing Linux to a closed proprietary model.

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New posting rules for Fedora List, From Linus.

[Marc M]

>  It wasn't the real Linus.  Sheesh.  According to CNN, the *real*
> Linus is
>  considering relicensing Linux to a closed proprietary model 

>  Richard S. Crawford (AIM: Buffalo2K) 
Now THAT'S news, if it isn't an April Fools Day joke.  Richard can you
elaborate?

Marc

New posting rules for Fedora List, From Linus.

[Trevor "TeC" Christian]

Henry Hartley wrote:

> On Fri, 01 Apr, 2005 at 9:25 AM someone posing as Linux Torvaldz
> said:
>
>   
>
> >>Rule #1   Posting content format
> >>All posts to the list from this point forward must be set to have
> >>a fixed display width of 4,317 inches (or the metric equivalent,
> >>6 millimeters).
> >>      
> >>
>
> Although the rest of this seems reasonable (for an arbitrarily large 
> value of reasonable), I think someone needs to review his imperial 
> to metric conversions.  4,317 inches (or 4.317 as we would say here
> in the good ol' USA) is closer to 10.97 cm.
>
> Hey, wait a minute, if Linus really wrote that, he would have spelled
> millimeters as millimetres.  Is this a joke?  ;)
>   
>  
The source email address "aprilthefirst(a)gmail.com" is what suggested 
that to me...

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