Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 20:54:15 GMT From: Salvo Bartolotta <bartequi@inwind.it> To: Doug Barton <DougB@gorean.org> Cc: howardjp@glue.umd.edu, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in Subject: Re: Why? Message-ID: <20000629.20541500@bartequi.ottodomain.org> In-Reply-To: <395B8135.130E4B42@gorean.org> References: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0006291127420.17486-100000@z.glue.umd.edu> <395B8135.130E4B42@gorean.org>
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>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< On 6/29/00, 6:02:45 PM, Doug Barton <DougB@gorean.org> wrote regarding 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 risk of > > > being burned alive at the stake ... > > > > So you are advocating buring Linux users at the stake? If you insist... > You know, some of us work very hard to convince new users that they > won't get savaged when they post to -questions. If you absolutely 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 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. Evidently, I was ironically referring to those who still (!) have serious problems with "daemons"; an amusing episode relating to such persons is also found in "The Complete FreeBSD". Incidentally, it may not be the case for the original poster -- despite his message, and despite what a number of people may have thought, too. I have recently written a relatively long letter to -doc, pointing out the semantic evolution (and spectrum) of the Greek word "daimon" (from Homer to the New Testament; "daiomai" & "daimon", etc.); to which letter, as may have been noticed, I referred the original poster. On the other hand, there could not have been **any** reference to Linux (or other Unix[es]) people: they are supposed to be familiar with daemons and the like, and they are supposed to know where the word comes from. Essentially, Mr Howard's problem seems to be "hermeneutic[al]" (from Greek "hermeneuo" ~ "I interpret"); his manners, at any rate, speak for themselves. Finally, as you probably know from my previous posts to the forum(s), I have been running a number of OSes including Linux: a fortiori, I could not have made **similar** comments on Linux people. Best regards, Salvo To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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