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Date:      Mon, 31 Jan 2000 18:40:21 -0700
From:      Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
To:        "G. Adam Stanislav" <zen@buddhist.com>
Cc:        chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Excellent Gartner Group report: Debunking Open Source Myths
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At 05:57 PM 1/31/2000 , G. Adam Stanislav wrote:

> >From what I learned in High School (which was 35 years ago, so I may not be
>remembering it correctly), it was Heraclitus who said you cannot enter the
>same river twice because by the time you re-enter, water has flowed, hence
>the river has changed. 

It's part of Buddhist lore, too. Have you read Hesse's "Siddhartha?" He
uses this at the climax of the book.

I suspect that the name of the TRUE originator is lost forever, and several
others have claimed the saying as their own over time.

--Brett



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