Re: OT: The Geek defense

On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 10:46:19 +1300, Pete Dashwood wrote:

>
http://www.wa****ngtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/23/AR2008022300693_pf.html
> 
> What I'd like to know is exactly HOW you can establish yourself as a
Geek, 
> so you can claim this defence. If writing a file system for Linux is all
 it 
> takes (a weekend's work for a COBOL programmer...), then there are a lot

> more Geeks around than many people may suppose.
> 
> Did he do it?  (Jo Brand, referring to O. J. Simpson: "Course he did it;

> he's a bloke...")
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> Pete.

You must be pretty good if you can write 15,000 lines of
multi-processing kernel code in a weekend. This is the size of the ext3
file system which is the predominant file system used in Linux.

His attorney's tactics smack of desperation I think. But I have no idea
whether he did it.

Tim