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The God, the Devil and the NetBSD.

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: Subject : The God, the Devil and the NetBSD.

: From : "E.J. Novikovas" <clm%tdd.lt@localhost>

: Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 18:52:16 +0300

Hello, my name is Eugenijus-Jonas, or Eugene-John in English. I am a catholic. I live in Lithuania. When I heard about changed NetBSD logo I exulted - they go to the right way, but I disappointed soon, because it was changed by political or ethical reasons. As a result - beastie still alive in docs page, you support obtaining of previous devotionalia by providing information where it can be purchased and so on. So, what is wrong? Crux of the matter is that God and Devil is real. They are not political or ethical term, they are and have real power. Main difference is that God is love, but Devil is ego or, in other words, He love himself and do it absolutely. So, whats happens next: when you love God, He loves you and this love is felt by other peoples around you, peoples want to be with you, want to deal with you just because you love God and you emit love, even if you do not think that and do not feel that by yourself; when you love Devil He loves himself and other peoples around you feel that you love yourself, because you love Devil, because you deal with Devil, because you emit self loving. Devil is just as a black hole for love. You can love Him as much as you can, but you can never expect love from Him. Of course, NetBSD is not such the black hole, because everyone of you are supported by love from your family, your friends, your kids, but how long they suffer? Just see, where is Linux today and where is all of BSD's? No, Linux don't base on God, but they don't base on Devil too. Mascot of Linux is penguin, mascot of BSD is Devil (or Beastie). Really no one can expect happiness in his/her life, while deal with, or support, or supported by Devil. Life can not exist without love. So, what must be done to change the situation? First of all everyone of you must go to church and confess your sins, if you are the catholics. If you are not, then pray for God for forgiveness by yourself, but it is much harder. Next, for NetBSD: 1. Must be clearly written in philosophy/constitution of NetBSD, that NetBSD don't have any relation with old logo now, and www pages must be cleaned up from any beasties, daemons and so on, and official mirrors must be controlled. There is the example - www.netbsd.se, and the question - what are they represent: Devil, NetBSD or Devil in NetBSD? Logo had changed 5 years ago. It is possible to write, that NetBSD believe in God, but it is too hard to continue such promise. 2. Name of the NetBSD must be changed. It would be principle - no BSD, because all of BSD's mascot is beastie. It can be NetOS or NetSomething or what you (community) want. Logo is good. Of course, NetBSD is derived from BSD 4. So, put this all information to the history page and forget it. 3. Licence must be changed too. No BSD or BSD like licence. It can be MIT, or Apache or even (L)GPL licence. 4. Must be changed naming of servers - no daemons. It must be servers or services. I don't need support by daemons, I don't need served by daemons. I can be served by servers or by services provided by other peoples. Good example is Microsoft Windows and Sun Solaris. Sun has new rc.d subsystem where they start/stop services. They have some daemons of course, but it is good example - they want to change situation. Really it is long work, but it is right way and it has future, at least for everyone of you personally. Why I wrote this post? Some years ago I had installed FreeBSD as my desktop, then switched to Linux, then became the catholic :) . I have some nostalgic feels about BSD. FreeBSD disappoint me - they had changed they logo very cosmeticly - really by political reason only. They want to be with Devil, but I don't. All these rules are correct for OpenBSD and even for FreeBSD. And again - if you want to be happy you must be with God, you must emit the love and a clean design (of NetBSD for example) here is not in the first place. Eugenijus-Jonas. P.S. I am 38 years old.