On Sat, 6 May 2000, rohit sharma wrote:
> Whats the full-form dude? MuLiniux..Point me to some pages. Some
> of my friends want to shift over to linuxland. Should I reccomed this
> distro?
I suppose mu in muLinux is a Japanese word. It is mentioned in Douglas
Hofstadter's `Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid' and also in
the jargon file. Here's its meaning:
mu /moo/
The correct answer to the classic trick question "Have you stopped
beating your wife yet?". Assuming that you have no wife or you have
never beaten your wife, the answer "yes" is wrong because it implies
that you used to beat your wife and then stopped, but "no" is worse
because it suggests that you have one and are still beating her.
According to various Discordians and Douglas Hofstadter the correct
answer is usually "mu", a Japanese word alleged to mean "Your question
cannot be answered because it depends on incorrect assumptions".
Hackers tend to be sensitive to logical inadequacies in language, and
many have adopted this suggestion with enthusiasm. The word `mu' is
actually from Chinese, meaning `nothing'; it is used in mainstream
Japanese in that sense, but native speakers do not recognize the
Discordian question-denying use.
Philip
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