Folks: This is a great read.
On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 3:00 PM, Scott Granneman <[email protected]>wrote: > http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2013/12/ > metaphor-for-the-day.html > > I’ll bet most of y’all would like this. Charlie Stross is a sci-fi writer > & nerd, & he carries the metaphor about as far as you can go: > > “There is one true religion in operating systems, and it is UNIX. Or maybe > it's not the one true faith: there's an earlier, older, more arcane > religion with far fewer followers, MULTICS, from which UNIX sprang as a > stripped-down rules-deficient heresy in the early days of the epoch. Either > way, if MULTICS is Judaism (and the metaphor is questionable at this point, > for unlike MULTICS, Judaism is still alive), then UNIX is Christianity. > > In the early days, the UNIX faith spread underground among nests of true > believers; but they evangelized their friends and neighbours and gradually > it began to spread in strange communities. And with the spread came the > great split. By the mid-1970s there were two main sects: AT&T UNIX, which > we may liken unto the Roman Catholic Church, and BSD UNIX, which we may > approximate to the Orthodox Churches. And then lo, there were many schisms. > …” > > It gets better from there. > > Scott > -- > R. Scott Granneman > [email protected] ~ www.granneman.com ~ granneman.tel > > “Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.” > ---Charlie Chaplin > > -- > -- > Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) > Main page: http://www.cwelug.org > To post: [email protected] > To subscribe: [email protected] > To unsubscribe: [email protected] > More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug > --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Central West End Linux Users Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- -- Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) Main page: http://www.cwelug.org To post: [email protected] To subscribe: [email protected] To unsubscribe: [email protected] More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Central West End Linux Users Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
