[plug] AS/400 and Linux

[Lance Duivenbode]

Noted and seconded !


Bret Busby wrote:

> 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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