On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 23:16:50 -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote: > > Different design, different philosophy, and different goals [1] but the > > same BSD heritage. > > There is no philosophy involved. > > England and the US and Canada are not differences in philosophy. > > They are just different. philosophy has little to do with it. > > Stop using that word incorrectly, please. > > Try: > > Different texture, different pantone. > > See, it fails to reuse words which are out of scope, and is just as > accurate.
actually, philosophy was used accurately here. the relevant definition from wordnet: any personal belief about how to live or how to deal with a situation and the equivalent from merriam-webster.com: a set of ideas about how to do something or how to live it's only because you have a different philosophy that you use only /etc instead of /usr/local/etc. that's how you deal with the situation of where to put configuration files. people/groups have different ideas of "how to deal with a situation" or "how to do something", which means they have different philosophies.
