You know, Burning Man used to have a drive-by shooting gallery. With guns, and cars, and is just as libertarian as this festival. The difference is, Burning Man encompasses much more than just libertarianism.
Quite frankly, I find your attitude to be annoying and downright stupid.
How hard can it be to understand the following simple sentence:
THE USER DOESN'T CARE.
Pushing the blame around doesn't help anybody. The only thing that helps is Fedora being helpful, not being obstinate.
Also, the fact is, that from a Q&A standpoint, a memcpy() that "just does the right thing" is simply _better_. Quoting standards is just stupid, when there's two simple choices: "it works" or "it doesn't work because bugs happen".
Standards are paper. I use paper to wipe my butt every day. That's how much that paper is worth.
Reality is what matters. When glibc changed memcpy, it created problems. Saying "not my problem" is irresponsible when it hurts users.
And pointing fingers at Adobe and blaming them for creating bad software is _doubly_ irresponsible if you are then not willing to set a higher standard for your own project. And "not my problem" is not a higher standard.
So please just fix it.
The easy and technically nice solution is to just say "we'll alias memcpy to memmove - good software should never notice, and it helps bad software and a known problem".
---
This is why Linus is widely considered a good steward, and Ulrich had to be removed from glibc.
Yes, they both had abrasive mannerisms, yes they sometimes said things that wouldn't pass fortune 500 HR policy.
The difference is: Ulrich seemed to care more about some kind of technical "correct-ness", and anything that didn't fit in his mental model was considered wrong, and nothing else mattered.
Linus deeply cares about the user experience. the kernel has a strict no-regressions policy for this reason. If it used to work before and now it doesn't, this needs to be fixed in the kernel
Like this case, most of the cases where Linus uses salty language comes down to various kernel developers not following this policy, then complaining when their patch doesn't get accepted.
Never delete code. This is why you have git or svn, or whatever your tool of choice is. Never, ever delete code. You may think it's dumb, you may think it's crap, or useless or whatever, but in 2 years, you'll think. "Damn, I remember doing this already, don't I have some code in somewhere?" And you will.
You may look at it and rewrite huge chunks because you're a far better programmer now, but trust me, re-writing code is way easier than writing it from scratch
Fascinating insight into a bit of Jobs life that is mostly overlooked, except as a "He used to be a hippy" anecdote. Steve Silberman does a good job of teasing out the bits and assembling a better vision of Jobs's belief system, and how it informed his work at Apple and NeXT
SF can suck you in, but there are loads of people in SF that have nothing to do with Tech at all. When I lived there my friends included a guy who worked on the Bay Bridge, a Hotel Manager, a financial advisor, a set designer, and a couple of musicians. The only tech people I talked to were at work. Those people are easy to find if you look.
Buddhist Massacre: Look up the end of the Civil War in Sri Lanka, where the Buddhist government pushed hundreds of thousands of Tamil refugees onto the Jaffna peninsula, and then bombed it to smithereens.
Hindus denying rights to women and allowing atrocities like rape and honor killings? Basically the BJP platform in India. Oh, and mass killings of Moslems in the 80s thrown in for good measure.
There is no Zoroastrian or Taoist state, but I'm sure if there was, there would be atrocities there.
Oh, and before anyone says that this is just an anti-religious rant: Pol Pot killed millions, and he was a nominal atheist.
People can and will kill and subjugate people for pretty much any reason. Usually they call it "The Greater Good"
Most inter-city roads in Sweden were 2-lane roads, where to overtake, you needed to swerve into oncoming traffic, 2+1 roads means that even if you're stuck behind an RV or truck, it won't be long before you can safely overtake. At least that's my assumption...
Please, before posting links to Wikipedia entries, give it some context!