[plug] AS/400 and Linux

[Bret Busby]

On Mon, 9 Jan 2006, Craig Ringer wrote:

> 
> Peter Tran wrote:
>> Bret Busby wrote:
>> 
>> "We don't know, since Peter said nothing about it beyond asking for help
>> with getting Linux on it."
>> 
>> Funny how people just assume that you're stupid for trying something
>> different, Bret I thank you for looking outside the square.
>
> I find this amusing, since I said that in response to Bret. Not to worry.
>
>

I think that people who have been following the thread, and/or who have 
not deleted the preceding messages in the thread, would be able to 
regress and find who wrote what.

What happened above, is one of those inadvertent misquotes, due to 
erroneous snipping for conciseness.

I think that Peter will not be the first, or the last, to make the 
mistake.

I think that, whilst Peter's sentence above, is apparently in response 
to the comment from Craig (as the only text preceding Peter's comment in 
the message), Peter's sentence could also (and, could have been 
intended to) be a response to my comments in the message to which Craig 
was responding.

Anyway, the issue remains - just because someone questions the 
usefulness of doing something new, does not mean that it should not be 
done. After all, apart from the examples that I already cited, it should 
be remembered that Bool created his boolean algebra, centuries before it 
had any application, and, boolean algebra is now very useful (although, 
may would probably still regard it as a pain in the unmentionables). 
And, without boolean algebra, digital computing and electronics might 
not be so easy to understand.

--
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
..............

"So once you do know what the question actually is,
  you'll know what the answer means."
- Deep Thought,
   Chapter 28 of
   "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
   A Trilogy In Four Parts",
   written by Douglas Adams,
   published by Pan Books, 1992

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