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"Future Change Warning: Proposed Federal censorship regulations may prohibit us from giving you information about the possibility of calling this function. We would be required to say that this is not an acceptable way of terminating a program." Is the above comment in the glibc manual something to be upset about? I don't understand why.
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Is Monty Python lost on this generation?
> Is Monty Python lost on this generation? Could you elaborate? Looks like a UK television thing from the 70s. I'm not familiar with UK television culture references.
In one of their sketch, spanish inquisitors would just pop out of nowhere and start wrecking havoc. Hence saying « nobody expects the spanish inquisition ».
You know something has reached a high level of absurdity whenever it makes you think of one of monty python’s program.
"Future Change Warning: Proposed Federal censorship regulations may prohibit us from giving you information about the possibility of calling this function. We would be required to say that this is not an acceptable way of terminating a program." Is the above comment in the glibc manual something to be upset about? I don't understand why.
The glibc maintainers removed it because a dated oblique joke didn't help anyone use glibc. People got upset when Stallman demanded they revert the change and refused to compromise.
What's flagged about this Wired article?
I believe this trend of prefering moral purity over professional qualities will reach its tipping point when cancer doctors will get fired for making inappropriate comments to female coworkers. At this point we'll start to get serious about what constitutes fireable behaviors and what just makes you a prick. I sincerely hope we'll reach that point very soon.
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Why not? It's a bit direct and perhaps odd and unexpected, but also polite, possibly flattering, and a very decent way of taking a chance on getting to know someone who you will likely not meet again unless you take action, better. If the response to the rejection of that offer is polite and professional, then how is this inappropriate?
As one of the people he asked out mentioned, his response to the rejection was anything but appropriate (he threatened to kill himself) [0]. 0. https://medium.com/@selamie/remove-richard-stallman-appendix...