TheRaven64's Journal: BSD is Dying?

On my /. front page, I have the two sections I most frequently read in little boxed, BSD and Apple. The Apple box is completely full of April Fools' `Jokes', while the BSD box is completely full of real stories. The seems slightly bizarre, since there are so many opportunities to generate convincing April Fools' stories for *BSD (I seem to recall one last year claiming that FreeBSD was going to start using the Linux kernel), and yet no one bothered. I'll have to remember to write one next year.

The one I didn't get around to

[RupW]

There's a guy who's turned up on the GCC mailing list who's clueless [gnu.org], states the obvious [gnu.org] and generally acts like he's in charge. I thought about spoofing a mail to the list

We've decided to appoint Sam to the GCC steering committee for his technical insight! Congrats!

but 1) I was too busy 2) I don't know I'd get the spoof right 3) maybe it's a bit harsh 4) maybe it'd give him ideas. And it might get a laugh out of some of them, but there's some curmudgeon types who mightn't have appreciated it. Hey ho.