On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 02:19:58PM +1100, Russell Coker wrote: > On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 10:03, Roger Leigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > What would be unacceptable about it, and why is it only a "borderline" > > > case? What would push it over the borderline? > > > > Demons are evil, and the BSD mascot is a demon (albeit a stylised > > Below is the first definition provided by the "dict daemon" command in > Debian. > > From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: > > Demon \De"mon\, n. [F. d['e]mon, L. daemon a spirit, an evil > spirit, fr. Gr. dai`mwn a divinity; of uncertain origin.] > 1. (Gr. Antiq.) A spirit, or immaterial being, holding a > middle place between men and deities in pagan mythology. > [1913 Webster]
I have no opinion either way, but, just to be fair, the full entry from Webster's 1913 is: From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Demon \De"mon\, n. [F. d['e]mon, L. daemon a spirit, an evil spirit, fr. Gr. ? a divinity; of uncertain origin.] 1. (Gr. Antiq.) A spirit, or immaterial being, holding a middle place between men and deities in pagan mythology. The demon kind is of an intermediate nature between the divine and the human. --Sydenham. 2. One's genius; a tutelary spirit or internal voice; as, the demon of Socrates. [Often written {d[ae]mon}.] 3. An evil spirit; a devil. That same demon that hath gulled thee thus. --Shak. -- gram
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