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Date:      Thu, 27 Oct 2011 19:39:17 -0400
From:      Jerry <jerry@seibercom.net>
To:        FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS
Message-ID:  <20111027193917.64997639@scorpio>
In-Reply-To: <20111028005249.5977ec0c.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 00:52:49 +0200
Polytropon articulated:

> There isn't much you can invent on a hammer. :-)

Absolutely true. However, as Abraham Maslow said in 1966, "It is
tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as
if it were a nail."

This sort of tunnel vision, at least in my opinion, has infected the
*BSD community in general. They look at a problem and then, rather than
finding a solution, find someone to blame. My my late father was so
fond of saying when someone complained, "It's better to light a candle
than curse the darkness."

-- 
Jerry ✌
jerry+fbsd@seibercom.net

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