Re: Case Insensitive File Systems -- Torvalds Hates Them

On Fri, 09 May 2025 23:55:39 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

This is also why the first thing a would-be dictator does once elected
is to start dismantling - or bypassing - those checks and balances.

Do your checks and balances simply stand by and let him? Or do they live
up to their name?

The late John W. Campbell, in one of his thought-provoking
editorials in Analog Science Fact<->Fiction in the 1960s,
pointed out that it's not power that corrupts.  People are
much less likely to abuse power if they can be held accountable ...

If they would still pounce on any opportunity afforded by those checks and
balances letting their guard down, doesn’t, on its own, make them any less
corrupt.