From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jun 29 12:52:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from relay2.inwind.it (relay2.inwind.it [212.141.53.73]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D5AD37B6CC for ; Thu, 29 Jun 2000 12:52:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bartequi@inwind.it) Received: from bartequi.ottodomain.org (212.141.78.251) by relay2.inwind.it; 29 Jun 2000 21:52:08 +0200 From: Salvo Bartolotta Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 20:54:15 GMT Message-ID: <20000629.20541500@bartequi.ottodomain.org> Subject: Re: Why? To: Doug Barton Cc: howardjp@glue.umd.edu, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in In-Reply-To: <395B8135.130E4B42@gorean.org> References: <395B8135.130E4B42@gorean.org> X-Mailer: SuperCalifragilis X-Priority: 3 (Normal) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< On 6/29/00, 6:02:45 PM, Doug Barton wrote regarding=20 Re: Why?: > James Howard wrote: > > > > On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Salvo Bartolotta wrote: > > > > > The people to whom you are referring once used to believe that the= Sun > > > rotated around the Earth, the latter being fixed at the center/re = of > > > the universe; in those days, if you did not agree, you ran the ris= k of > > > being burned alive at the stake ... > > > > So you are advocating buring Linux users at the stake? If you=20 insist... > You know, some of us work very hard to convince new users that=20 they > won't get savaged when they post to -questions. If you absolutely=20 can't > live with yourself if you don't demonstrate how clever you are by > denigrating another person, at least move it to -chat where the new=20 user > is less likely to see it. > Thanks, > Doug [ redirected to -chat ] Dear Doug Barton, thank you very much for writing. I am afraid Mr Howard has completely missed the point.=20 Evidently, I was ironically referring to those who still (!) have=20 serious problems with "daemons"; an amusing episode relating to such=20 persons is also found in "The Complete FreeBSD".=20 Incidentally, it may not be the case for the original poster --=20 despite his message, and despite what a number of people may have=20 thought, too.=20 I have recently written a relatively long letter to -doc, pointing out=20 the semantic evolution (and spectrum) of the Greek word "daimon" (from=20 Homer to the New Testament; "daiomai" & "daimon", etc.); to which=20 letter, as may have been noticed, I referred the original poster. =20 On the other hand, there could not have been **any** reference to=20 Linux (or other Unix[es]) people: they are supposed to be familiar=20 with daemons and the like, and they are supposed to know where the=20 word comes from. Essentially, Mr Howard's problem seems to be "hermeneutic[al]" (from=20 Greek "hermeneuo" ~ "I interpret"); his manners, at any rate, speak=20 for themselves. Finally, as you probably know from my previous posts to the forum(s),=20 I have been running a number of OSes including Linux: a fortiori, I=20 could not have made **similar** comments on Linux people. =20 Best regards, Salvo To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message