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www/fun humor.html jokes/linus-islam.html |
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Sat, 11 Aug 2007 22:31:16 +0000 |
CVSROOT: /web/www
Module name: www
Changes by: Karl Berry <karl> 07/08/11 22:31:16
Modified files:
fun : humor.html
Added files:
fun/jokes : linus-islam.html
Log message:
linus converts to islam, ticket 340913
CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/fun/humor.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.48&r2=1.49
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/fun/jokes/linus-islam.html?cvsroot=www&rev=1.1
Patches:
Index: humor.html
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<li>The <a href="/fun/jokes/wolf-logo.html">Wolf Logo</a>.</li>
<li><a href="/fun/jokes/filks.html">Some Filks</a>.</li>
+
+ <li><a href="/fun/jokes/linus-islam.html">Linus Torvalds converts to
+ Islam</a>.</li>
</ul>
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+<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN">
+<HTML>
+<HEAD>
+<TITLE>Linus converts to Islam - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation
(FSF)</TITLE>
+<LINK REV="made" HREF="mailto:address@hidden";>
+</HEAD>
+<BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#1F00FF" ALINK="#FF0000"
VLINK="#9900DD">
+
+<H3>Linus Converts to Islam</H3>
+
+<A HREF="/graphics/gleesons.html"><IMG SRC="/graphics/gleeson_head.jpg"
+ ALT=" [colorful rounded image of the Head of a GNU]"
+ WIDTH="153" HEIGHT="128"></A>
+
+<P>
+<HR>
+</P>
+<b>Wiki News</b>
+
+<p>Linus Torvalds, joining such other pioneers as Cat
+Stevens, and Sammy Davis Jr., has converted to Islam.
+As a result, he has now renounced his prior work in
+furthering the “open source movement” and revoked the
+licence for use of his Linux kernel.
+
+<p>When reached for comment, the notorious recluse stated
+that he aims to re-issue the licence in the near
+future once the kernel has been adapted so as not to
+function with uses which are contrary to Islam as he
+interprets it. What future remains for the GNU
+project remains unclear, although insiders note that
+it sharpens the distinctions between the open source
+compared with the free software movement. Speaking
+off the record, the source expanded on the
+“knife-edge” or “house of cards” on which the open
+source movement is built, dependent on a small span of
+traditional rights, whereas the free software movement
+encourages more broad, cultural change, which, he
+felt, may inspire new ways to address the current
+conundrum.
+
+<p>When asked if this is the beginning of a
+macro-fragmentation of Linux some wonder if this is
+not already occurring now, and raise the issue of
+China and its parallel standards to accepted
+protocols. Others point to the eventual expiration of
+the protected rights which are key to all “open
+source” software, so that Linus Torvald”s conversion
+should serve as a wake-up call as to the broader
+problem -- a kind of Linux Y2K -- even if a new kernel
+is reverse-engineered to replace the Torvalds kernel.
+
+<p>One free software ideologue summarized the current
+situation as that most people think of the
+relationship between the open source movement and the
+free software movement as like that between socialism
+and communism. Instead, he argues, we should see the
+open source movement as like boosters of movable type
+(as both spread a form of technological literacy.)
+The free software movement, in contrast, promotes the
+culture of public libraries, including with respect to
+software. Obviously public libraries benefited from
+movable type, but they are not limited to such
+productions, he added. How much publishing drives
+reading patterns or reading drives publishing patterns
+is an open debate, he concluded, although he suggested
+an historical review of that dynamic might be fruitful
+in suggesting new interactions between open source and
+free software, as competing views.
+
+<p>Critical of the Eric Raymond model, which he says
+examined an empirical case, the early growth of
+Linux, and distilled what he took to be the active
+ingredient —massive independent peer review— he
+points out that while such review may help debug
+software, that it doesn’t inspire software (nor new
+ideas in general) unlike a culture of freedom such as
+free software promotes. Additionally, open source
+only promotes peer review of those who can afford
+access, whereas the free software movement encourages
+a much wider peer review, and “that’s just better for
+software too,” this insider claims.
+
+<p>Moreover, whereas the Raymond model is an outgrowth of
+an empirical case, stalling actions in the inexorable
+development of software suggest to developers that a
+revision of the model may be in order, with these
+hiccups as the new empirical case to consider.
+
+<p>Both the open source and free software movements were
+built by those with a certain playfulness, both in
+computer terms, and linguistically. One new proponent
+suggests that the time is right for a new challenge,
+which he terms, “often aims.” This manifesto he
+derives as follows: habitual and often are synonymous,
+as are goals and aims. Whereas a manifesto is a
+statement of habitual goals, this translates as that a
+manifesto is a statement of often aims, of which
+manifesto is its anagram.
+
+<p>The often aims movement suggests that the open source
+and free software movements are in a cultural cold war
+as to whether the way of thinking on rights expiration
+day will indulge non-restricted licensing when the
+legal protection will be absent.
+
+<p>The often aims perspective in considering the free
+software movement as a cultural concept to spread,
+sees it as offering some hope that when those licenses
+expire that the way of thinking within the world will
+see the benefits of preventing restricted licenses.
+
+<p>The open source movement, with a culture based only on
+entwined interests, seems more likely to fracture at
+that time, he notes.
+
+<p>Right now though is the critical time so that the free
+software message is in place for when that day
+arrives.
+
+<p>-- 30 --
+
+<P>
+<A HREF="/fun/humor.html">Other humor</A>
+in the GNU Humor Collection.
+
+
+<H4>Disclaimer</H4>
+<P>The Free Software Foundation claims no copyrights on this text.
+
+<P>
+<HR>
+</P>
+
+<P>
+Return to <A HREF="/home.html">GNU's home page</A>.
+
+<P>
+Please send FSF & GNU inquiries & questions to
+<A HREF="mailto:address@hidden";><EM>address@hidden</EM></A>.
+There are also <A HREF="/home.html#ContactInfo">other ways to
+contact</A> the FSF.
+
+<P>
+Please send comments on these web pages to
+<A HREF="mailto:address@hidden";><EM>address@hidden</EM></A>,
+send other questions to
+<A HREF="mailto:address@hidden";><EM>address@hidden</EM></A>.
+
+<P>
+Updated:
+<!-- timestamp start -->
+$Date: 2007/08/11 22:31:11 $
+<!-- timestamp end -->
+<HR>
+</BODY>
+</HTML>
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