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robertdfrench 3 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: GNU IFUNC is the real culprit behind CVE-2024-3094

I have a conspiracy theory, unsupported by facts, that Richard Stallman secretly invented POSIX as a way to get the proprietary UNIX vendors to waste time on something whose only value was to make it easier for folks to port their apps to GNUUUUUUUU/Linux.

teddyh 3 months ago [–]

Stallman only invented the name “POSIX”, not the standard itself.

robertdfrench 3 months ago | [–]

that's what Big POSIX wants you to think pal

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