Hilariously written article. Here are some of the most wonderful snippets: "this is possibly one of the biggest war that as been witnessed ... Paolo Bonzin, wh

Hilariously written article. Here are some of the most wonderful snippets: "this is possibly one of the biggest war that as been witnessed ... Paolo Bonzin, who has maintained the Free Software Foundation's GNU grep and GNU sed, has quit from his role." This is just the warmup. It's the beginning of the article, and has a few funny typos to get your juices flowing. My favorite part, is there's just something about the idea of "the biggest war witnessed" being kicked off by these unassuming command line regex utilities that gave me a little thrill. Two paragraphs later, the article starts the real hit parade. "Bonzini put it bluntly saying, 'To put it somewhat bluntly, ...'" In my writing, I've sometimes found it difficult to properly introduce a quote. I never realized that I could simply repeat the quoted person verbatim. This is a brilliant technique. Next paragraph, the brilliance continues: "it would be impossible to convince a diverse group such as the group of GNU maintainers to agree on coding standards for C. He wrote in his post, 'It is likely not possible to convince a diverse group such as the group of GNU maintainers to agree on coding standards for C++, for example...'" The author was so enamored with this technique that he repeated it at the end of the very same quote. "'all Stallman had to offer on the topic was "We still prefer C to C++, because C++ is so ugly" (sic). As a result of this, the GNU coding standards have not seen any update in years and are entirely obsolete.” Bonzini blamed that it was Stallman's attitude because of which GNU coding standards have not been updated in years and were entirely obsolete." I also love the last line of the article. "Well, if the trend continues, it can be a trouble for Stallman and his FSF ..." It rather puts me in mind of a young child, having spoken at unaccustomed length and exhausted their material, who shrugs and ends with, "well, they were in big trouble." This article was a great Christmas present. Thanks, Hacker News!