From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jun 15 20:29:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from smtp02.teb1.iconnet.net (smtp02.teb1.iconnet.net [209.3.218.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BADBF37BB7C for ; Thu, 15 Jun 2000 20:29:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from babkin@bellatlantic.net) Received: from bellatlantic.net (client-151-198-135-9.nnj.dialup.bellatlantic.net [151.198.135.9]) by smtp02.teb1.iconnet.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id XAA06871; Thu, 15 Jun 2000 23:28:28 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <39499F0A.16341799@bellatlantic.net> Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 23:29:14 -0400 From: Sergey Babkin X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-19990626-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: ru, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Daniel C. Sobral" Cc: Warner Losh , Andrew Kenneth Milton , "Koster, K.J." , "'Mark Newton'" , "'RossWheeler'" , "'FreeBSD Hackers mailing list'" Subject: Re: [Oz-ISP] FreeBSD and the forces of darkness. Real religious w ars! (fwd)) References: <200006141457.AAA57230@mail.theinternet.com.au> <200006141539.JAA21454@harmony.village.org> <39498F79.409EAA1E@newsguy.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Daniel C. Sobral" wrote: > > Warner Losh wrote: > > > > Tell them that it is a daemon, not a devil. A daemon isn't the devil, > > nor does it promote the worship of devilry. > > > > In Japan, the daemon is viewed as a nice, lovable creature. The > > Of course, they don't translate daemon as "akuma". :-) I think the best explanation I saw was of the difference between "demon" and "daemon". Of which the first one is supposed to be associated with devil and the second with a good spirit.\ Can't remember where I have seen it. Maybe in the McKusick et. al book ? -SB To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message