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New Baby in the Torvalds Home
Celeste Amanda Torvalds was born at last night, at 8:25pm pacific time. She weighs in at 7lbs 5 oz. Congrats to Linus, Tove, Patricia and the fam.
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At least this was delivered on time.
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Now, that's news for nerds and stuff that matters. 1st, congratulations to both parents.
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Now, for the questions
1- Is the baby going to be open sourced ?
2- Is this going to delay the release of 2.4 ?
3- I'd like me a beowulf cluster of these...
Mod me down if you must, but I at least made myself chuckle writing this one.
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AP - Today the U.S. unveils its road plan to maintain a technical lead over the rest of the world. The announcement of Torvalds 2.0 is heralded by some as a much needed replacement of an already old component. Others commented that you should never trust a 'dot' release, and that while they might be interested in Torvalds 2.0 in the future, it is currently much too immature to transfer mission critical responsibilities to. In any event, the fact that there is continued development in the Torvalds 'family' of products is happy and good news for all.
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The Context:
The kabuki-west mailing list is for planning dinners and get-togethers the San Francisco Bay Area. Somebody made the horrible mistake of posting a baby announcement, and RMS replied, at his finest.
RMS's Natalism Flame:
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 93 15:14:50 -0500
From: rms@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Richard Stallman)
To: mcuddy@ctbu.rational.com
Cc: kabuki-west@mica.berkeley.edu
Subject: Another mcuddy..
Could people please not use this list to announce information of no particular interest to the people on the list? Hundreds of thousands of babies are born every day. While the whole phenomenon is menacing, one of them by itself is not newsworthy. Nor is it a difficult achievement--even some fish can do it. (Now, if you were a seahorse, it would be more interesting, since it would be the male that gave birth.)
Following your example, I might send the list an announcement whenever a new GNU program is written. That happens less often than babies are born, it does the world a lot more good, it reflects more conscious creativity and hard work, and some of the readers might actually find the information useful. Even so, I think most of the readers would consider this outside the scope and purpose of the list. Clearly that goes double for babies.
Of course, we have another place for announcements of new GNU programs. If some people like to read birth announcements, perhaps you should set up a suitable list or newsgroup. Perhaps rec.births? (While you're at it, start rec.deaths for obituaries--they're usually more interesting to read.)
These birth announcements also spread the myth that having a baby is something to be proud of, which fuels natalist pressure, which leads to pollution, extinction of wildlife, poverty, and ultimately mass starvation.
Perhaps the people who have decided to have no children should start making proud announcements, so as to set a better example. I could start. I'm sure everyone on this list will be glad to know I don't plan to reproduce myself.
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May she have her father's brains and her mother's looks,
The beauty of Venus and a love of Penguins,
The mind of Einstein and the fluency of Shakespere,
And may she be as loved and admired in the field she chooses as her own Papa.
May her parents have infinite patience,
The time to spend with her,
The wisdom to raise her
The courage to teach her that which she needs to know,
And may they be as proud of her accomplishments as if they were their own.
Congratulations Mr. Torvalds.
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Linus is forking!
Well, yes, that's where babies come from.
Oh, you said forking
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You just know that Linus will be trying to find ways to make changes to his latest release once it starts "dumping core".
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