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=20 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 ris= k of > > > being burned alive at the stake ... > > > > So you are advocating buring Linux users at the stake? If you=20 insist... > You know, some of us work very hard to convince new users that=20 they > won't get savaged when they post to -questions. If you absolutely=20 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=20 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.=20 Evidently, I was ironically referring to those who still (!) have=20 serious problems with "daemons"; an amusing episode relating to such=20 persons is also found in "The Complete FreeBSD".=20 Incidentally, it may not be the case for the original poster --=20 despite his message, and despite what a number of people may have=20 thought, too.=20 I have recently written a relatively long letter to -doc, pointing out=20 the semantic evolution (and spectrum) of the Greek word "daimon" (from=20 Homer to the New Testament; "daiomai" & "daimon", etc.); to which=20 letter, as may have been noticed, I referred the original poster. =20 On the other hand, there could not have been **any** reference to=20 Linux (or other Unix[es]) people: they are supposed to be familiar=20 with daemons and the like, and they are supposed to know where the=20 word comes from. Essentially, Mr Howard's problem seems to be "hermeneutic[al]" (from=20 Greek "hermeneuo" ~ "I interpret"); his manners, at any rate, speak=20 for themselves. Finally, as you probably know from my previous posts to the forum(s),=20 I have been running a number of OSes including Linux: a fortiori, I=20 could not have made **similar** comments on Linux people. =20 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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