Feature Request: EarlG and Elad, I hear we don't have the "GNU Terry Pratchett" header...can we get on that? [View all]
In Terry Pratchett's Discworld series, the clacks are a series of semaphore towers loosely based on the concept of the telegraph. Invented by an artificer named Robert Dearheart, the towers could send messages "at the speed of light" using standardized codes. Three of these codes are of particular import:
G: send the message on
N: do not log the message
U: turn the message around at the end of the line and send it back again
When Dearheart's son John died due to an accident while working on a clacks tower, Dearheart inserted John's name into the overhead of the clacks with a "GNU" in front of it as a way to memorialize his son forever (or for at least as long as the clacks are standing.)
Since Sir Pterry's untimely passing, a LOT of websites have added the
GNU Terry Pratchett header
I would very much like to see DU do this; I've no doubt Sir Pterry would have loved us and probably been a participant had he known about us.
Long story short I'm respecfully asking we add the "GNU Terry Pratchett" header. He was as liberal as they come.