Linus does do whatever he wants, and I reckon that's why it works. People are happy for him to do so.
Announce up front that you want the project to go a certain way. Slap a link to this discussion on the project home page if you like, then be as totalitarian as you need to get the project finished the way you want it.
It's *your* project. The beauty of Open Source Development is that if people don't like it, it's not your problem. They can do what they like with it on their own homepage and in their own time.
The most obvious problem with this is that Microsoft might well decide that the appropriate convention could be "MS_OPEN_SHARE" even after half the population of the world had started using "SHARE_SNIFFER". You can bet that AOL would similarly name their atandard "AOL_SHARE", and some 1337 bored kid would name his "IF_YOU_CAN_FIND_THIS_ITS_YOURS".
Besides, surely the whole point of the open sharing in the first place was to mark those files as open to everyone? What if someone accidentally labeled their drive "SHARE_SNIFFER" because they saw someone else do it once and thought it was "What was done"?
I sometimes get the impression that where debian attracts politically hard-core users, slackware attracts kinda "history-hard-core" users. The ones that really want to run an old mainframe and really don't care what the licence is...
'Course, I could be dead wrong.
BTW, I do use slackware. Dunno why. Redhat irritates me, and I haven't tried Debian yet. I will someday. Maybe I'll swich, and maybe not...
I think it's interesting that you say "We've gotten involved..." and "countries weaker than us"
When I talk about all the stupid things the government over here do, I say "they" (I didn't vote for them, and I only voted for the people I did vote for as the best of a bad bunch)...
What your government does, and what I think of it doesn't reflect on you as a person - I don't care what nationality you are.
Anyway, my point is that just because I happen to agree that the US government deserves a fair amount of international animosity, none of you americans need to feel offended...
Not that you have to hand over decryption keys or the plain text. But if you claim to have lost the key, how can they possibly prove that the plain text you hand over is not the encrypted text?
Perhaps I'm being stupid, but shouldn't the same alogrithm usually applied to the key and the encrypted text be possible to apply to the encrypted text and the decrypted text to produce the key?
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I played it on an old BBC model B micro, but it was on a fair few platforms at the time.
The first game I'm aware of to give you total freedom. Here's your ship, there's the universe. Go for it.
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Linus does do whatever he wants, and I reckon that's why it works. People are happy for him to do so.
Announce up front that you want the project to go a certain way. Slap a link to this discussion on the project home page if you like, then be as totalitarian as you need to get the project finished the way you want it.
It's *your* project. The beauty of Open Source Development is that if people don't like it, it's not your problem. They can do what they like with it on their own homepage and in their own time.
Might "Go" be easier to start to learn? www.britgo.org has links to some software (free, on-line and otherwise)
... as long as the CEO of Fahrenheit Entertainment is willing to web-cast the details of all the music (s)he listens to.
Besides, surely the whole point of the open sharing in the first place was to mark those files as open to everyone? What if someone accidentally labeled their drive "SHARE_SNIFFER" because they saw someone else do it once and thought it was "What was done"?
'Course, I could be dead wrong.
BTW, I do use slackware. Dunno why. Redhat irritates me, and I haven't tried Debian yet. I will someday. Maybe I'll swich, and maybe not...
When I talk about all the stupid things the government over here do, I say "they" (I didn't vote for them, and I only voted for the people I did vote for as the best of a bad bunch)...
What your government does, and what I think of it doesn't reflect on you as a person - I don't care what nationality you are.
Anyway, my point is that just because I happen to agree that the US government deserves a fair amount of international animosity, none of you americans need to feel offended...
Is that also where all those biros go?
The secret mission in Elite for the BBC micro...
Surely they wouldn't take up too much space....
Foreign ones for whom it's 11:20....
Perhaps I'm being stupid, but shouldn't the same alogrithm usually applied to the key and the encrypted text be possible to apply to the encrypted text and the decrypted text to produce the key?