ACM is not a branch of IEEE, they are distinct organizations. Even if it were, ACM Queue is a publication whose authors are not strictly ACM employees. Many are practitioners and researchers in the computing field. In this case, the author's background comes from working on FreeBSD.
Also, this complaint is a bit like the one earlier about the Wired article saying everything should be encrypted being sent over http and not https. The authors are calling for change, the publication's medium is managed by someone else. Your little gripe would be far more appropriate if it were a blog author on their own platform calling for some change but not applying it to their own platform.
It wasn't a gripe per se so much as an ironic observation, but thanks for the correction. (Also ironically: I was a member of ACM for a couple of years -- when my employer paid my dues -- and I did not realize ACM was distinct, versus a part of, IEEE.)
You might have had it mixed up with the IEEE Computer Society. It's the software and computer focused end of IEEE, with the other societies being more focused on other EE fields (power, radio, etc.).
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ACM is not a branch of IEEE, they are distinct organizations. Even if it were, ACM Queue is a publication whose authors are not strictly ACM employees. Many are practitioners and researchers in the computing field. In this case, the author's background comes from working on FreeBSD.
Also, this complaint is a bit like the one earlier about the Wired article saying everything should be encrypted being sent over http and not https. The authors are calling for change, the publication's medium is managed by someone else. Your little gripe would be far more appropriate if it were a blog author on their own platform calling for some change but not applying it to their own platform.
It wasn't a gripe per se so much as an ironic observation, but thanks for the correction. (Also ironically: I was a member of ACM for a couple of years -- when my employer paid my dues -- and I did not realize ACM was distinct, versus a part of, IEEE.)
You might have had it mixed up with the IEEE Computer Society. It's the software and computer focused end of IEEE, with the other societies being more focused on other EE fields (power, radio, etc.).