User:Nandesuka/Todo

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Articles to be cleaned up[edit]

  • Phil Katz - terrible grammar, very clumsy reading.

A list of articles[edit]

Some of these are probably redirects. (I wish there was a feature in the software that made redirects optionally display differently.) I'd think that rather than taking on a number at once, perhaps best to start with outliers and work inwards? - brenneman 03:29, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

  1. Alexander the Great
  2. George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron
  3. Harvey Milk
  4. Hasdrubal the Fair
  5. Historical pederastic couples
  6. Homosexuality
  7. Hubris
  8. Iollas
  9. Jean Cocteau
  10. Jules Verne
  11. Medius of Larissa
  12. Pederastic couples in classical antiquity
  13. Pederastic couples in Japan
  14. Pederastic filmography
  15. Pederastic relationships in classical antiquity
  16. Pederastic relationships in classical antiquity
  17. Pederastry
  18. Pederasts
  19. Pederasty in ancient Greece
  20. Pederasty in ancient Greece
  21. Pederasty in greece
  22. Pederasty in Japan
  23. Pederasty in the Islamic lands
  24. Pederasty in the Islamic world
  25. Pederasty in the modern world
  26. Pederasty in the Muslim World
  27. Pederasty in the renaissance
  28. Pederasty
  29. Pederest
  30. Pederasty in classical antiquity
  31. Pederasty in the Middle East
  32. Pederasty in the Middle East and Central Asia

Articles to be created[edit]

Strikethrough means that the article is "done enough" that i'm concentrating elsewhere for the moment.

Varied Interests[edit]

Video games[edit]

Atari[edit]

Bally/Midway[edit]

EduWare[edit]

Exidy[edit]

Sega[edit]

SSI[edit]

Stern[edit]

Category Work[edit]

RMS Criticisms (draft)[edit]

Stallman is characterized by some as being extremely difficult to work with. The XEmacs team, in particular, has catalogued a list of specific complaints about working with RMS that led them to fork off their project. [1] These include:

  1. The high overhead and burdensome nature of the legal paperwork RMS requires to collaborate on software,
  2. RMS's seeming inability to cope with abstract data structures, which are a practical necessity in writing any sufficiently complex software product that is still maintainable.
  3. RMS's unwillingness to compromise on API issues.
  4. A "tit for tat" attitude towards compromise. Ben Wing claims that Stallman's attitude towards compromise is motivated primarily by politics rather than by the desire to reach the best technical solution.

Jamie Zawinski released an archive of email messages detailing the history of the FSF Emacs/XEmacs split.[2] He discusses specific shortcomings of the FSF Emacs design, but at a high level attributes the problems with FSF Emacs not simply to technology, but to Stallman's inability to work with others. Zawinski says:

[Lucid Emacs was run] in a much more open, inclusive way than RMS ran his project. I was not just willing, but eager, to delegate significant and critical pieces of the project to other hackers once they had shown that they knew what they were doing. RMS was basically never willing to do this with anybody.

Stallman's insistence on using the term "GNU/Linux" to describe Linux-based operating systems is perceived as high-handed by some; Larry McVoy, author of Bitkeeper characterized this as "foolish and greedy".[3]. Linus Torvalds has opined that while GNU/Linux may be an appropriate name for a GNU-based distribution, using that name for Linux in general is "just ridiculous." Others believe that Stallman is trying to coopt the hard work of others to compensate for the failure of the HURD to reach viability or commercial success.[4]. Still others point out that the demand to prepend the "GNU" name onto Linux gives short shrift to other software projects, such as the X Window System, that are arguably just as important as the Gnu tools,[5] and that the right to name a system belongs, from a moral and ethical perspective, with those who publish it. [6]