User: jason_aw

Re:Linus' reponse to LiGnuX question...

On: Torvalds ABCNews Transcripts

Just out of interest, did you actually read the interview? Because you're taking the midwife thing out of context.

Linus wasn't calling the "GNU System" the midwife, he was talking about gcc. He was saying that having a good compiler available helped the system to grow... making "midwife" quite a good analogy IMO.

Re:Doesn't this mean something?

On: DOJ vs NSI

No, it certainly should *not* be handled by
the US government... it should be kept as
far away from them as possible.

For one thing, remember that America isn't
the whole world. I think occasionaly some
of you need reminding of that :-)

But the more we allow governments in general
to handle internet infrastructure the more they
are going to try to restrict it... and that
would be disastrous.

Of course, nothing will stop them placing
their restrictions, but surely we should
do all we can to keep their hands off our
internet?

You've only got to look at some of the
European guidlines being introduced to
show that we should do our best to keep
politicians as far away as we can
possibly manage.