Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 12:17:02 +0900 From: Joel Rees <joel@alpsgiken.gr.jp> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD logo... Message-ID: <20030416120449.A477.JOEL@alpsgiken.gr.jp> In-Reply-To: <200304150930.02216.tsimmons77@comcast.net> References: <47079.207.200.3.5.1050420464.squirrel@otter.centtech.com> <200304150930.02216.tsimmons77@comcast.net>
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> Okay, I'm sorry, I promised myself I wouldn't do this. Breaking a promise to yourself is a good way to weaken your moral foundations. > But after thumbing > through 165 e-mails this morning, most from this discussion group, I got a > little tired of reading these. So, I figured I'd just throw in my two cents. > I'm pagan. I'm proud to be pagan. I'm ordained non-denom pagan. On behalf of > all the heathens out there using FBSD, I'd like to say... we like the daemon. > Not because of any ocultist reitualistic 'I wanna go sacrifice a goat' BS, > but because for once, a major contribution to the computing world is using > something from our history correctly. Daemons were around long before > Christianity. Many Christians would disagree with that. > They weren't bad then, they aren't bad now. Just my two cents. No argument with that. Wouldn't really want a "demon" (in the sense of "evil spirit") in my computer, but "daemons" are no problem. Shoot, MSWindows has daemons, too. Microsoft just calls them something else. -- Joel Rees <joel@alpsgiken.gr.jp>
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