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Re: emacs & MAXPATHLEN
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David Kastrup |
Subject: |
Re: emacs & MAXPATHLEN |
Date: |
Thu, 04 Aug 2005 20:41:52 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Juanma Barranquero <address@hidden> writes:
> On 8/4/05, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Sascha Wilde <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> > Yes, that is exactly my point, I think Richard is right:
>> > Linux is just a program "in the usual sense".
>>
>> But I was talking about GNU/Linux. It seems you don't even get the
>> difference we are talking about.
>
> [jumping in]
>
> Perhaps in a parallel universe you were talking about GNU/Linux. In
> this universe, you said:
>
>> Linux is not really a program in the usual sense.
>
> Richard retorted:
>
>> It is a program, in the usual sense of the word.
>> You must have some unusual sense of the word in mind.
>
> And you countered:
>
>> Looks more like a collection of services to me, somewhat like a
>> library.
>
> So definitely you were talking (or at least, you were *writing*)
> about Linux, not GNU/Linux.
That definitely was what the original argument was about. But in my
reply to Sascha I pointed out to him that his way of applying the term
"a program" to Linux would fit GNU/Linux quite as well. Which did not
really serve to render the view he claimed to support more plausible.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
- Re: emacs & MAXPATHLEN, (continued)
- Re: emacs & MAXPATHLEN, Richard M. Stallman, 2005/08/03
- Re: emacs & MAXPATHLEN, David Kastrup, 2005/08/03
- Re: emacs & MAXPATHLEN, Richard M. Stallman, 2005/08/03
- Re: emacs & MAXPATHLEN, David Kastrup, 2005/08/04
- Re: emacs & MAXPATHLEN, Sascha Wilde, 2005/08/04
- Re: emacs & MAXPATHLEN, David Kastrup, 2005/08/04
- Re: emacs & MAXPATHLEN, Sascha Wilde, 2005/08/04
- Re: emacs & MAXPATHLEN, David Kastrup, 2005/08/04
- Re: emacs & MAXPATHLEN, Alfred M\. Szmidt, 2005/08/04
- Re: emacs & MAXPATHLEN, Juanma Barranquero, 2005/08/04
- Re: emacs & MAXPATHLEN,
David Kastrup <=
- Re: emacs & MAXPATHLEN, Juanma Barranquero, 2005/08/04
- Re: emacs & MAXPATHLEN, Markus Gritsch, 2005/08/04
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