Re: GNOME on Ice (the point behind my insult)

[mawarkus t-online de (Matthias Warkus)]

+++ Mon, Oct 18, 1999 at 10:05:09AM -0700 +++
Sri Ramkrishna e-mails me. Film at 11. Reply right now, after the break.
> > default window manager for Gnome. But after all, that happened for
> > hysterical raisins, at the 6.0 release E was about the only WM with
> 
> Redhat has a hysterical raisin problem? :-)  Matthias, hope you won't take
> offense on what you wrote.  I just found that line extremely funny. :)

hysterical reasons n.                             
(also `hysterical raisins') A variant on the stock
phrase "for historical reasons", indicating       
specifically that something must be done in some  
stupid way for backwards compatibility, and       
moreover that the feature it must be compatible   
with was the result of a bad design in the first  
place. "All IBM PC video adapters have to support 
MDA text mode for hysterical reasons." Compare    
bug-for-bug compatible.


(From the Jargon File 4.1.0)

mawa
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