Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:09:45 -0500 From: Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz> To: Redd Vinylene <reddvinylene@gmail.com> Cc: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Chat <freebsd-chat@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: I can't make world without the "games" group? Message-ID: <48B4A959.7050700@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <f1019d520808260829h3a16825fx6eb6b2d713051aaf@mail.gmail.com> References: <f1019d520808010831s39c803fan9a35fcd17f010fc5@mail.gmail.com> <87abf487wg.fsf@kobe.laptop> <f1019d520808260201o27009529v43aa7ae8c35d7304@mail.gmail.com> <87abezx5yr.fsf@kobe.laptop> <f1019d520808260829h3a16825fx6eb6b2d713051aaf@mail.gmail.com>
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Redd Vinylene wrote: > > I'm not entirely sure I understand what you're saying here, but it's > certainly not related to what Mr. Exupery was saying. You can't sell > someone a new car full of obsolete parts, saying "now you have the > freedom to choose what parts _you_ want to keep", that's just > ridiculous. Next thing you know the person will die in a car crash. But FreeBSD might not be a car[1]. Maybe it's a piano. And a piano that can play just as beautifully, in tune, and even loudly (and yes, that was the pianoforte's strong point in 1709) as any modern piano, but also has the distinctive odor of Brahms' cathouse and a couple of dents on the fallboard where Beethoven dropped his ear-trumpet. I think Exupery would have understood the significant additional value of such an instrument. For those who don't appreciate such things, it an operating system in tune with its past, ready for work in the present and with hope for the future, if those who use it will support it. Kevin Kinsey -- If a guru falls in the forest with no one to hear him, was he really a guru at all? -- Strange de Jim, The Metasexuals [1] This analogy is dead by bludgeoning on the 'Net, but for reference's sake: http://www-personal.edfac.usyd.edu.au/staff/souters/Humour/bg+gm.html
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