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Virtual Decentralized Networks: Linux's Organization

Posted by michael on from the xchat-and-pine dept.

barries writes: "Here is an interesting take on the Linux Project which tries to put it in a historical perspective and explain why traditional structures and theory don't fully apply to it. It overlooks a few things but gets most of the basics right." You might want to skip ahead a bit in the paper to get to the Linux-specific sections.

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  1. Lame lame lame... by webword · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    2001-11-02 05:34:52 The Virtual Networked Organisation (articles,news) (rejected)

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  2. Re: Slashcode comment preview bug? by Christopher+Whitt · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Sorry about the bad HTML formatting. I guess I can't have separate paragraphs inside a BLOCKQUOTE in a comment posted as Plain Old Text. It formatted fine in preview.

    this is what I saw in the comment preview. I'm too lazy to find the proper place to submit bugs to slashcode, hence the horribly off-topic post.

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  3. Re: Slashcode comment preview bug? by damiam · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    When I see the tab in the screenshot labeled "Google S...rbation". I think, "That's a little more than we needed to know".

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  4. If I hadn't already posted, I'd mod this funny! by Christopher+Whitt · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Nice catch!

    Now here's a lot more than you needed to know.

    The fourth search result is actually quite good. It's related to the math assignment I mentioned in my first post. The course in Engineering 9100 - Numerical Analysis, and joy of joys, we're doing Perturbation methods. The assignment has a dumb cubic polynomial that I'm supposed to solve approximately. I'd rather be anywhere else but in school working on this assignment right now...

    Christopher

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    1. Re:If I hadn't already posted, I'd mod this funny! by damiam · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Before I posted, I actually did check my rhyming program for words ending in -rbation besides "masturbation", and the only other result was "perturbation". I decided that that probably wasn't what you were searching for, though ... guess I was wrong. :-)

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    2. Re:If I hadn't already posted, I'd mod this funny! by man_ls · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Well in my version of AnalogX Rhyme, "masturbation" produced 746 matches...

      For "S" I found

      SALVATION
      SANCTIFICATION
      SANITATION
      SANITATION(2)
      SAPONIFICATION
      SARMATIAN
      SATURATION
      SECURITIZATION
      SEDATION
      SEDIMENTATION
      SEGMENTATION
      SEGREGATION
      SELF-CONGRATULATION
      SELF-DETERMINATION
      SELF-PERPETUATION
      SENSATION
      SEPARATION
      SEQUESTRATION
      SIMPLIFICATION
      SIMULATION
      SINGULARIZATION
      SITUATION
      SOCIALIZATION
      SOLICITATION
      SOPHISTICATION
      SPECIALIZATION
      SPECIFICATION
      SPECULATION
      STABILIZATION
      STAGFLATION
      STAGNATION
      STALINIZATION
      STANDARDIZATION
      STARVATION
      STATION
      STERILIZATION
      STERILIZATION(2)
      STIMULATION
      STIPULATION
      STRANGULATION
      SUBORDINATION
      SUBSIDIZATION
      SUBSTANTIATION
      SUBSTATION
      SUBURBANIZATION
      SUFFOCATION
      SUMMATION
      SUPERSTATION
      SYNDICATION

      Thats quite a lot.

  5. A matter of course by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Do I want to skip ahead to the Linux section?

    What a fine analogy of the current situation at Slashdot. Move the blocks around so that the Linux shows. What ever happened to that complex idea of balance? Do you not think that a primary function of propaganda is to dismiss all propaganda as propaganda, all but your own?

    Mark as offtopic or flame as you will. But at least take a short moment to realize the herding of ideas that is before us. Thanks.