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New Baby in the Torvalds Home
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CmdrTaco
on Tue Nov 21, 2000 01:30 PM
from the congratulations-linus! dept.
from the congratulations-linus! dept.
Celeste Amanda Torvalds was born at last night, at 8:25pm pacific time. She weighs in at 7lbs 5 oz. Congrats to Linus, Tove, Patricia and the fam.
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Re:Except its not 2.0! (Score:4)
It should be OK - Linus is running IIS 5 with the latest Service Pack, so it can hold up to any load. ;-)
Obligatory schedule comment (Score:5)
Re:obligatory wise cracks. (Score:5)
OK but you get to change them *ALL*.
Mozel Tov to the Torvolds' Family!
The Cure of the ills of Democracy is more Democracy.
Syntax (Score:3)
make config
make dep
make clean
make baby
sleep 23328000
make clean
make install
make modules
make modules_install
make diaper
make clean
make diaper
make clean
make diaper
make clean
...
obligatory wise cracks. (Score:5)
Now, for the questions
1- Is the baby going to be open sourced ?
2- Is this going to delay the release of 2.4 ?
3- I'd like me a beowulf cluster of these...
Mod me down if you must, but I at least made myself chuckle writing this one.
Congrats (Score:4)
So in accordance with the Open Source philosophy, are we gonna, um, see how this release was accomplished?
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Nope (Score:3)
New from Norway Torvalds 2.0!! (Score:5)
RMS and baby announcments (Score:5)
The Context:
The kabuki-west mailing list is for planning dinners and get-togethers the San Francisco Bay Area. Somebody made the horrible mistake of posting a baby announcement, and RMS replied, at his finest.
RMS's Natalism Flame:
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 93 15:14:50 -0500
From: rms@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Richard Stallman)
To: mcuddy@ctbu.rational.com
Cc: kabuki-west@mica.berkeley.edu
Subject: Another mcuddy..
Could people please not use this list to announce information of no particular interest to the people on the list? Hundreds of thousands of babies are born every day. While the whole phenomenon is menacing, one of them by itself is not newsworthy. Nor is it a difficult achievement--even some fish can do it. (Now, if you were a seahorse, it would be more interesting, since it would be the male that gave birth.)
Following your example, I might send the list an announcement whenever a new GNU program is written. That happens less often than babies are born, it does the world a lot more good, it reflects more conscious creativity and hard work, and some of the readers might actually find the information useful. Even so, I think most of the readers would consider this outside the scope and purpose of the list. Clearly that goes double for babies.
Of course, we have another place for announcements of new GNU programs. If some people like to read birth announcements, perhaps you should set up a suitable list or newsgroup. Perhaps rec.births? (While you're at it, start rec.deaths for obituaries--they're usually more interesting to read.)
These birth announcements also spread the myth that having a baby is something to be proud of, which fuels natalist pressure, which leads to pollution, extinction of wildlife, poverty, and ultimately mass starvation.
Perhaps the people who have decided to have no children should start making proud announcements, so as to set a better example. I could start. I'm sure everyone on this list will be glad to know I don't plan to reproduce myself.
This could get interesting. (Score:3)
First, obligatory congrats.
Now, consider the probabilities here...
Conclusion? Man, forget John Connor. When Microsoft accidently gets involved in that super-secret Skynet project, and the Terminator units come for our collective asses, this is the person I'm expecting to save humanity. ;)
I'd elaborate, but the voices in my head say they're coming to give me some of those pretty pills again and I have to go hide.
-TBHiX-
Argh. Hero worship (Score:3)
Of the tens of thousands (?) of current Slashdot readers, who here has ever talked to Mr. Torvalds? I'm not saying "who has seen him onstage at a trade show", or "who has been part of a mailing list he writes on", but who has talked to him one-on-one, face-to-face? Who knows him well enough to consider him a friend?
Ok, now the rest of you. Why do you care that he just had a kid? Is this any different than following hollywood celebrity gossip? What difference does it make to you that he just procreated? I'm sure at this point he doesn't mind having his new baby announced on Slashdot, but that's because it's good, happy news. If he has a vasectomy next week will that show up here?
He may be an amazing programmer. I don't know. I have never seen any code he's written himself. In fact, I don't particularly care to see code he's written just because he wrote it. To me it seems pretty unhealthy to fixate on one person like this.
Let the man share his personal life with his family and friends and look to your own personal life instead.
Re:RMS and baby announcments (Score:4)
Let me ask, how many people are aware of your work in producing offspring? How many aware of RMS's work? What has your producing offspring achieved, for the good of humanity? What was your 6th generation gradnfather's name? Was he anything like you? Will your 6th generation grandchildren know who you were? Will they know what you did? Will they find that you had children in any way remarkable? Will any of your traits be recognizable in them, or will they be diluted from all your descendants mixing to produce more descendants? Your descendants may be huge in number, but they're also a lot of other people's descendants.
Those who wish their lines to end with their deaths are free to do so. For what purpose did their ancestors live, though?
Same as you, to selfishly propagate their genes. Perhaps you should be so lucky that a descendant of yours may do something worthwhile with their life, rather than just sustaining and reproducing.
Indeed, for what purpose do they live?
To make a difference, to help people other than those directly related to them. To do something with their lives, rather than just try to be "remembered" by reproducing. Just about anyone can reproduce (as evidenced by the large number doing exactly that), but not just anyone can change the world.
Millions of years of evolution leading to a dead end: a selfish, miserable, pewling wretch.
How is *your* end any better than his?
I find it highly ironic that RMS is fighting to secure the freedoms and rights of society, for people just like your kids.
Aim to find meaning in your life through yourself, and your own actions, not your offspring. Don't worry about being remembered because in the end, everyone and everything will be forgotten, and those who count will be the ones who made good use of their time here.
And of course, I have no objections to anyone having kids, only to those who think doing so makes them better than people who choose not to. Congrats to the Torvald family.
A Blessing for the Blessed (Score:5)
May she have her father's brains and her mother's looks,
The beauty of Venus and a love of Penguins,
The mind of Einstein and the fluency of Shakespere,
And may she be as loved and admired in the field she chooses as her own Papa.
May her parents have infinite patience,
The time to spend with her,
The wisdom to raise her
The courage to teach her that which she needs to know,
And may they be as proud of her accomplishments as if they were their own.
Congratulations Mr. Torvalds.
www.matthewmiller.net [matthewmiller.net]
And of course the inevitable... (Score:5)
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Horrible pun (Score:3)
Re:Oh no! (Score:5)
Well, yes, that's where babies come from.
Oh, you said forking
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Re:So now can Torvalds be a US citizen? (Score:3)
Re:Lazy fuck (Score:3)
God forbid she's BSD licensed Re:Congrats (Score:3)
Let's all just hope for Linus' sake that she didn't come under the Badly Soiled Diaper license... ;-) A kid could turn out to be a real devil under those circumstances...
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*sniff* ... *sniff* (Score:5)
Zildy