On Mon, 30 Apr 2012 07:21:08 -0400 Tom Horsley <horsley1953@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 30 Apr 2012 12:26:39 +0200 > Karel Volný wrote: > > > I hope there doesn't exist one more step before like "in previous > > iteration, users were bad to us, so let's break some feature to > > do harm to them" :-) > > I have yet another theory - what if it is deliberate sabotage > by people who would profit from the destruction of open > source? > > http://home.comcast.net/~tomhorsley/game/gnome3-rant.html When I started reading about grub2 (which I think should be called lilo2), I noticed that disks still start at 0, but partitions now start at 1 (or is it vice versa?). Anyhow, I got this image in my head of a bunch of Microsoft guys sitting around enjoying the snacks after a meeting, and laughing as they thought about introducing this confusion. One of them then suggests that in the next revision, they'll flip it so that disks start at 1 and partitions at 0 to introduce even more confusion. Probably pure fantasy, as entropy and 'let's write this from scratch to improve it' is enough to explain the change and its confusion. But whenever I see something like the grub change, or the one described here, in a linux program, I think of that image and get a chuckle instead of getting irate. Well, less irate, anyway. ;-) -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
