Path: ...!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Case Insensitive File Systems -- Torvalds Hates Them Date: 10 May 2025 20:05:35 GMT Lines: 29 Message-ID: References: <68194581@news.ausics.net> <681aa121@news.ausics.net> <3aorelxelu.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <681be760@news.ausics.net> <681c316b@news.ausics.net> <%BwTP.8396$rdEd.2575@fx39.iad> <681f303f$0$16814$426a74cc@news.free.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net n9KaiTwx4l3hRb0gfYKJYQvjYYqsl6jqCf8EVUPyu8p4QAWXTP Cancel-Lock: sha1:TqT1rfPEtpshD1JfC2jOygcOngg= sha256:RPgyn+U3+sDd/I+ZPbpJcy0Ju68yOaXWv0QEGt4vi5g= User-Agent: Pan/0.160 (Toresk; ) Bytes: 2861 On Sat, 10 May 2025 18:14:34 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > On 2025-05-10, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote: > >> Le 09-05-2025, Charlie Gibbs a écrit : >> >>> 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 >> >> 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: >> >>> (which is why the A-word is hated and feared among politicians). >> >> Sorry, I'm French and I really don't know what the A-word could be. > > 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.