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From: Joshua MacDonald <jmacd@namesys.com>
To: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>, beverly <beverly@namesys.com>,
	Ramon Reiser <ramon@namesys.com>,
	Reiserfs developers mail-list <Reiserfs-Dev@namesys.com>,
	reiserfs-list <reiserfs-list@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: [reiserfs-dev] Japanese style (aka US military style) documentation
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2002 17:41:39 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020605134139.GE12195@reload.namesys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020605133631.GD12195@reload.namesys.com>

On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 05:36:31PM +0400, Joshua MacDonald wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 05:24:46PM +0400, Hans Reiser wrote:
> > 
> > http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,52901,00.html
> > 
> > This describes our objective in the reiser4 documentation.
> 
> I like this line: "Anything that touches on someone's beliefs is out of the
> question" and apply it seriously.  That means don't insult Red Hat or Al Viro
> or anyone else.
> 
> -josh

Or, for that matter, lawyers.  I quote legalese.html:

	  Now if you ask an IP lawyer whether the phrase "anal retentive IP
	  lawyer" is redundant, they tend to laugh.  IP lawyers require language
	  that sounds pretty asinine in such agreements.

I recommended cutting those two sentences in my comments in that file.

  reply	other threads:[~2002-06-05 13:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-06-05 13:24 Japanese style (aka US military style) documentation Hans Reiser
2002-06-05 13:36 ` [reiserfs-dev] " Joshua MacDonald
2002-06-05 13:41   ` Joshua MacDonald [this message]
2002-06-05 13:47   ` Chris Mason

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