On Sat, 13 Sep 2003 13:25:56 -0300 Josenildo Marques <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered:
> > I see you point and I agree with you, but I'd like to add something > else to the stew. For what it is worth. > > We are political and ideological beings and there is no escaping from > it. If you do something because you believe it is fun and it may help > people have fun it' s an ideological viewpoint. Paradoxically. So we > could call it the ideology of fun. Ideology is a way through which we > see the world. Ancient peoples like the greeks thought a mountain was > a sacred place where the gods lived. In our times, a mountain is just > a place where people can extract minerals from. See what i mean ? > > I also think that people wanted to keep the name short. So "Linux" is > much better than "GNU/Linux" for marketing, etc. I always liked this quote, and what you wrote brought it to mind: "Athens built the Acropolis. Corinth was a commercial city, interested in purely materialistic things. Today we admire Athens, visit it, preserve the old temples, yet we hardly ever set foot in Corinth." - Dr. Harold Urey, Nobel Laureate in chemistry -- HaywireMac Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Mandrake HowTo's & More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ It is Fortune, not Wisdom, that rules man's life.
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