Date: Fri, 9 Jan 1998 19:30:18 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: shimon@simon-shapiro.org Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, tom@sdf.com, capriotti@geocities.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X based Free installation Message-ID: <199801091930.MAA28321@usr09.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.360206222834.shimon@simon-shapiro.org> from "Simon Shapiro" at Feb 6, 36 10:28:34 pm
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> BTW, you made a comment about Linux ease of installation. Which Linux?
Any Linux for which the Linux camp is willing to send out a schmuck
to endure the pain on your behalf is basically painless to install.
It's topologically equivalent to having very, very good install tools.
;-).
Also, I screwed up my otherwise beautiful example with a factual
error:
> > The Catholic Church vs. Galileo was mostly the
> > result of him writing Principia Mathematica in Italian instead of
> > Latin -- "us commoners" of the time couldn't read or write Latin, and
> > new ideas needed to be fit into Church doctrine over time so that
> > "us commoners" wouldn't see abrupt changes and thus erode the
> > claim to authority of the Church. 8-).
Galileo, of course, did not write Principia Mathematica, which was
of course, written in Latin, not Italian. Thanks to Pedro Giffuni
for pointing this out (to my terrific embarrassment -- I almost never
make this kind of error).
The book I should have referenced was De Revolutionibus orblure
coelestium ("The Revolution of the heavens", not "Mathematical
Principles").
Anyone interested in a detailed account of the event should see
http://www.knight.org/advent/cathen/06342b.htm
Terry Lambert
terry@lambert.org
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