From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Feb 2 3:13: 1 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from harrier.prod.itd.earthlink.net (harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AD0537B416 for ; Sat, 2 Feb 2002 03:12:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from pool0015.cvx40-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([216.244.42.15] helo=mindspring.com) by harrier.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16Wy6J-000521-00; Sat, 02 Feb 2002 03:12:56 -0800 Message-ID: <3C5BC9B2.B8A2CD60@mindspring.com> Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2002 03:12:50 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kenneth W Cochran Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Junior Annoying Hacker Task References: <5F46C986-16DB-11D6-8CEC-00039359034A@mac.com> <200202020842.DAA11096920@shell.TheWorld.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Kenneth W Cochran wrote: > *Very* bad idea. OSes such as FreeBSD (or Unix in general, > for that matter) should *not* be made-up to "look-like" > something they're not, *especially* Windows. A hierarchical arrangement is a hierarchical arrangement; why do you care what the tool to modify it looks like? The humor is in the evolution of an identical abstract form, and then the amount of effort that goes into the editorializing of the shape of the tools to manipulate data stored in the abstract form. It's OK though; other people have seen the humor in it, and it beats the "firewall_enable" discussion. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message