Re: Request for comment -- a better attribution system

Eric S. Raymond
2001-04-22T16:51:21Z

Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>:
> Sigh... Would these broken things, by any chance, be "my grand ideas are
> not met with applause"?

Nope. Not at all. Stay tuned, because I'll explain.

And before you write me off as one of the $BIGNUM clueless
visionaries, you might do well to remember that I actually *have*
radically changed the world lkml operates in. At least twice.
--
Eric S. Raymond

In the absence of any evidence tending to show that possession
or use of a 'shotgun having a barrel of less than eighteen inches
in length' at this time has some reasonable relationship to the
preservation or efficiency of a well regulated militia, we cannot
say that the Second Amendment guarantees the right to keep and bear
such an instrument. [...] The Militia comprised all males
physically capable of acting in concert for the common defense.
-- Majority Supreme Court opinion in "U.S. vs. Miller" (1939)