Re: Case Insensitive File Systems -- Torvalds Hates Them

On 10/05/2025 21:05, rbowman wrote:

On Sat, 10 May 2025 18:14:34 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
 

On 2025-05-10, Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> wrote:
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Le 09-05-2025, Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> a écrit :
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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

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It's not that new. Platon already spoke about this with his
invisibility ring. But that's not the reason I answered you. The reason
is:
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(which is why the A-word is hated and feared among politicians).

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Sorry, I'm French and I really don't know what the A-word could be.

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Accountability.  Politicians talk a good line about openness,
transparency, accountability, etc. - but in actual fact they hate and
fear these things, and work tirelessly (and usually clandestinely) to
minimize these threats to their power by building immunity.

 My first thought was 'Anarchism'. Politicians despise the thought that
people can organize themselves without their enlightened guidance. I'll
admit that once you go beyond the theoretical there have always been
implementation problems but the answer is not more and more centralized
power.

No.
There are even signs that King Donald is beginning to realise that.
System theory show a centralised feedback system either fails to respond to change or goes unstable.
You need local systems with clearly defined feedback paths and responsibilities and a light touch of overall guidance.
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“Ideas are inherently conservative. They yield not to the attack of other ideas but to the massive onslaught of circumstance"
    -  John K Galbraith