> > > 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.
there is no philosophy. there was no belief. maybe there was a touch of idealism, but nothing as refined as you suggest. it was simply a decision made for a handful of things which got reused for the rest of them. back decades ago. your philosphy is that you can copy things from a dictionary and that we should live according to that as a rule? you weren't there. were you even born? perhaps your philosophy is that you can speak authoritatively upon things you didn't experience directly? oh wait, that's religion....
