From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Feb 22 17:29:52 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA06792 for chat-outgoing; Sat, 22 Feb 1997 17:29:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from carlton.innotts.co.uk (root@carlton.innotts.co.uk [194.176.128.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id RAA06743 for ; Sat, 22 Feb 1997 17:29:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from [194.176.130.96] (serialB1f.innotts.co.uk [194.176.130.96]) by carlton.innotts.co.uk (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id BAA20028; Sun, 23 Feb 1997 01:24:04 GMT X-Sender: robmel@mailhost.innotts.co.uk Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <199702222335.QAA05383@phaeton.artisoft.com> References: <12084.856651998@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Feb 22, 97 02:53:18 pm Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 01:23:52 +0000 To: Terry Lambert , jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) From: Robin Melville Subject: Re: RMS's view on dynamic linking Cc: terry@lambert.org, ben@narcissus.ml.org, nate@trout.mt.sri.com, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 4:35 pm -0700 22/2/97, Terry Lambert wrote: >I can predict that a social construct like FreeBSD operate in a certain >fashion based on its organizing principles, based on observation of >other social constructs with similar organizing principles. In the >same way I can predict a rock will fall... [etc.] This is a man who has never heard of chaos theory... FreeBSD obviously works solely upon the basis of strange attractors :) Rob. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Robin Melville, Addiction Information Services Nottingham Alcohol & Drug Team Tel: +44 (0)115 952 9478 Fax: +44 (0)115 952 9421 work: robmel@nadt.org.uk home: robmel@innotts.co.uk Pages: http://www.innotts.co.uk/~robmel (home page) http://www.innotts.co.uk/nadt (substance misuse pages) ----------------------------------------------------------------------