Re: Change the name "daemon" to something better!
- From: Simon Brooke <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2006 18:27:29 +0000
in message <1137701941.494470.52520@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
aalbino@xxxxxxxxxxx ('aalbino@xxxxxxxxxxx') wrote:
> Isn't anyone else bothered by the fact that a really good OS such as
> linux has stuff named after some of the evilist and most diabolic (yuk!
> beagh!!!) beings in the universe?!
This is a wind-up, isn't it? There aren't 'beings' with this level of
intellectual ability in the Universe for real, are there? Someone tell
me there aren't!
Clue one (free one): it's a cultural and literary allusion, and one so
elegant that it happens to work in a number of cultures and a number of
levels.
Clue two (this one's gratis too): even in Christianity, daemons aren't
intrinsically evil. Lucifer was after all one of the senior members of
the Christian god's entourage before he fell.
--
simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/
'there are no solutions, only precipitates'
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