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It's Not the 15th Birthday of Linux
Glyn Moody writes "There's been a spate of celebrations of Linux's 15th birthday recently. What they're really marking is the 15th anniversary of version 1.0. But do version numbers matter for free software? The 'release early, release often' approach means there's generally little difference between version 0.99.14z, say, and version 1.0. In fact, drawing attention to such anniversaries is misguided, because it gives the impression that free software is created in the same way as traditional proprietary code, working towards a predetermined end-point according to a top-down plan. So how should we be choosing and celebrating free software's past achievements?"
Release early, release often, release statements of current functionality. Seriously, no non-geek is going to be installing software that isn't test by some bff geek anyway. So release early and often so the geeks can help guide its direction and give feedback.
Occam's razor is the blind faith in the natural selection of least resistance and in universal oversimplification. -- EF
Christmas is based on non-Christian traditions that were absorbed by Christianity because they could not get people to stop celebrating them.
Although that's true, you're glossing over a little history there. The church couldn't get the countryfolk to stop celebrating Saturnalia, Solistice, etc. so they simply scheduled a Christian service for the same time, and anyone who didn't show up was subject to sanctions (note the root of that word, eh?) up to and including being burned at the stake as a pagan idolater.
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This is true, I am a Christian and the fact is Jesus was probably not born on Dec 25th does not bother me no more than birthdays of various people (such as Washington's birthday being celebrated on the 3rd Monday of February. As long as its celebrated that's all that matters....he could have been born then but probably not. In around 350 ad, Pope Julius declared that it would be celebrated on December 25. This was to make it easier on the Romans who celebrated their pagan winter solstice holiday on that day...it was called Yule...and this is where the word yuletide came from that is often used to relate to Christmas songs :).