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

[Daniel Lepage <dpl33@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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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