Re: Request for comment -- a better attribution system

Eric S. Raymond (esr@thyrsus.com)
Sun, 22 Apr 2001 12:51:32 -0400


Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>:
> Sigh... Would these broken things, by any chance, be "my grand ideas are
> not met with applause"?

Nope. Not at all. Stay tuned, because I'll explain.

And before you write me off as one of the $BIGNUM clueless
visionaries, you might do well to remember that I actually *have*
radically changed the world lkml operates in. At least twice.

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		<a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>

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