The elder gods, manifesting through Henry Hartley, recently decreed: > On Fri, 01 Apr, 2005 at 9:25 AM someone posing as Linux Torvaldz said: > >>> Rule #1 Posting content format >>> All posts to the list from this point forward must be set to have >>> a fixed display width of 4,317 inches (or the metric equivalent, >>> 6 millimeters). > > Although the rest of this seems reasonable (for an arbitrarily large > value of reasonable), I think someone needs to review his imperial > to metric conversions. 4,317 inches (or 4.317 as we would say here > in the good ol' USA) is closer to 10.97 cm. > > Hey, wait a minute, if Linus really wrote that, he would have spelled > millimeters as millimetres. Is this a joke? ;) It wasn't the real Linus. Sheesh. According to CNN, the *real* Linus is considering relicensing Linux to a closed proprietary model. -- Sláinte, Richard S. Crawford (AIM: Buffalo2K) http://www.mossroot.com http://www.stonegoose.com/catseyeview "We live as though the world were how it should be, to show it what it can be." --"Angel", Season 4 ep. 1