Ron Johnson wrote:
On 02/26/07 05:47, Chris Lale wrote:[...]It seems that language was forking long before software projects.Yup. You all went wrong, and we stayed correct. (How's that for blatant, mindless jingoism???)
Winston Churchill (who had a parent from each camp) famously said that Great Britain and the USA were "two peoples divided by a common language".
If he had known about Debian and Ubuntu might he not have said "two distributions divided by a common set of packages"?
-- Chris.