Daniel Lepage on Sun, 8 May 2005 21:56:22 -0500 (CDT)


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Re: [s-d] Re: [s-b] Nweek 87 Proposal Resolution



On May 8, 2005, at 10.25 PM, Alex Truelsen wrote:

On 5/8/05, Peter Cooper Jr. <pete+bnomic@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Proposal 28/2 GNU's Not Unix (BvS):
That text doesn't exist in that rule (nor in rule 3-6 anymore, for
that matter), so the main part of the proposal doesn't do anything.
Only one Genechip will be given out for this proposal's passing, so I
don't know if half of it can be awarded to The Voice. Thoughts?

Oh, just that there's more than one Genechip to be paid - the title of the proposal is a recursive acronym. With "GNU" expanding to "GNU's Not Unix,"
there is a series of acronyms that title expands into, including "GNU,"
"GNUNU," "GNUNUNU," and so on. Therefore, since 3-6 stated at the time of this proposal's passing that a proposal could be worth multiple Genechips, I would say this one is worth an infinite number of Genechips. The Voice gets half of that infinity. The point of the proposal was of course to fix the
hole after profiting from it. So, looks like the hole is fixed and
everyone's happy, especially me and Voice.

Two important points:
1) The title forms only four acronyms. The fact that the first word is entirely capitalized does nothing. Good luck convincing anyone to acronymize "gnu's not unix" by "gnununu".
2) My tweak removed this flaw.

Nice try, though.

--
Wonko

"Tradition is what you resort to when you don't have the time or the money to do it right."
     -Kurt Herbert Alder

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