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On Tue, Nov 10, 1998 at 04:33:35PM +0000, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:

> but our bishops dont have the resources to maintain the fabric; they
> can just keep the roof on the chapter house, and the naves are full of
> chickens. they need a police force to clean up the whole building

It seems to me that the development models for Linux and LaTeX are very similar.
The entry to the Linux kernel is pretty strictly controlled, as far as I can see.

Of course Linus is much kinder than Them.


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