Remembering Allan McDonald, who refused to approve the Challenger launch

Re:Remembering Allan McDonald, who refused to approve the Ch... by Clewza313 on Sunday March 07, 2021 @07:15PM (#26381067)

> "his laws of the seven R's ... always do the right thing for the right reason at the right time with the right people. [And] you will have no regrets for the rest of your life."

I count 6 R's, did somebody mangle the quote?

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Re:Remembering Allan McDonald, who refused to approve the Ch... by abhorrence on Sunday March 07, 2021 @07:16PM (#26381072)

I count seven: right, right, reason, right, right, regrets, rest.

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Re:Remembering Allan McDonald, who refused to approve the Ch... by derekp7 on Sunday March 07, 2021 @07:50PM (#26381265)

I did too the first several times I read through it -- until I read every word individually. Most of the "r's" are on words at the beginning of a word group, but two of them are on words right next to each other.

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Re:Remembering Allan McDonald, who refused to approve the Ch... by dnqthao on Sunday March 07, 2021 @07:17PM (#26381076)

7 actually: right, right, reason, right, right, regrets, rest

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Re:Remembering Allan McDonald, who refused to approve the Ch... by fggg444 on Sunday March 07, 2021 @07:55PM (#26381299)

it's recursive, the first "r" is from "the seven R's"

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Re:Remembering Allan McDonald, who refused to approve the Ch... by dylan604 on Sunday March 07, 2021 @09:46PM (#26381871)

It's not GNU

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Re:Remembering Allan McDonald, who refused to approve the Ch... by Razengan on Monday March 08, 2021 @12:26AM (#26382539)

What is GNU?

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Re:Remembering Allan McDonald, who refused to approve the Ch... by Clewza313 on Monday March 08, 2021 @12:33AM (#26382576)

A recursive acronym of "GNU's Not Unix". (Seriously.)

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Re:Remembering Allan McDonald, who refused to approve the Ch... by tim-- on Monday March 08, 2021 @02:38AM (#26383149)

But if it's not Unix, what is it?

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Re:Remembering Allan McDonald, who refused to approve the Ch... by teddyh on Monday March 08, 2021 @03:39AM (#26383468)

GNU is a computer operating system compatible with Unix.

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