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Twitter post by Daniel Feldman (@d_feldman): Linux is the only major operating system to support diagonal mode (credit [Twitter] @xssfox). Image shows an untrawide monitor rotated about 45 degrees, with a horizontal IDE window taking up a bottom triangle. A web browser and settings menu above it are organized creating a window shape almost like a stepped pyramid.Edit: alt text
Are you implying that this user is the real Richard Stallman? If that’s true, this thread just got 100x more hilarious.
some people allege that the copypasta was created by him (i doubt this)
Too bad—for a second there I thought he’d lost even more of his marbles.
There is one part which he didn't say, regarding how linux is part of the gnu system when the gnu kernel is actually gnu hurd
This ain't a bdsm club, so this is a bad argument.
Maybe you'll like it more under this new guise: I named my cat Goofyball. But since Linnaeus named the species Felis catus, you remind me that my cat's name should ackchyually be Felis catus/Goofyball. To which I reply, very appropriately, 'it's MY cat'. So Goofyball it is.
Understand now the authority argument? Authority in the sense of authorial, having an author.
Linus didn't choose Linux because he thought it sounded too self-centred.
and then he went and named a project 'Git'
you authored your cat? why does that sound dirty?
Sorry if I mistake your intention. If that's the case, it's just me making a wrong guess.
You're probably misreading this.
I authored THE NAME. If you prefer, I'm the name-giver, the author in this sense.
Linus is the namer and the creator of that kernel.
As creator he is by right allowed to name his creation whatever he likes. Just like me, as the cat 'entity creator as a pet' am allowed to name it whatever I like.
No outsiders input required. You get now what I mean by author?
Whatever your reply may be, let me thank you already for engaging. It's nice to be pressured to explain something in simpler, more accessible terms.
Don't feed the trolls.
I'm pretty sure everyone here understands both sides of the argument, but just don't concider it important enough to change their vocabulary.
Lmao I was going to ask if this was a copy pasta.
When it's such a massive wall of text of the type of complaining about something it usually is