Date: Sat, 23 May 1998 00:44:16 -0400 From: kriston@ibm.net (Kriston J. Rehberg) To: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why we should not support Microsoft. Message-ID: <9585-Sat23May1998004416-0400-kriston@ibm.net> In-Reply-To: <01bd85df$ca68a9e0$f820aace@eliot.pacbell.net> References: <01bd85df$ca68a9e0$f820aace@eliot.pacbell.net>
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Jack Velte writes: > unfortunately, i feel that chuckie as little satan is an unfortunate > mascot for christian secretaries. the tech's think it's all a funny > game, but in the ``real world'' people have shorter insight. All kidding aside, I have encountered two people in the real world so far who take this very seriously. One of them even went so far as to denounce the "killing" of "parent" processes so that their "children" will be "killed" as well. Of course they don't like the idea of the things called "daemons" inside the system themselves. Not that there are scary little demons running around, just that the joke is that they are supposed to represent little demons running around. I doubt any of you would actually believe that this is a real problem, but I have seen first-hand on more than one occasion that the spiritual issues surrounding Unix are a very real problem that some people have with Unix -- especially the BSD derivatives since it's such a fun, traditional inside joke to the BSD people. One of these guys would rather advocate AS/400, OS/2, or Windows than Unix. I'm not saying he's right, but he was in a position to make the decision. These people were not hicks at small ISP's or backwater job shops, these were really bright folks at large (sometimes three-lettered) computer companies. I personally have no opinion on this. But I wanted to back Jack up that it's a real problem for some people and they don't take it lightly. Lots and lots of people take religion very seriously. That's why it's a multi-billion-dollar industry in the USA (hehe). Kris PS...we don't need to post the daemon tee-shirt story again :) -- Kriston J. Rehberg AOL: Kriston http://kriston.net/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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