[SlugLUG] Debian As A Server

[Peter Belew]

I am glad to read that life and enlightening controversy have returned
at last to this list. :)

 - Peter

On 6/12/06, Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> wrote:
> I see in the Web archives that cerise at armory.com wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 04:08:33PM -0700, Rick Moen wrote:
>
> > Which is NOT what non-sequitur means.
>
> I'm sorry, but you basically will need to straighten out your grasp of
> formal logic on your own time.
>
> > A non-sequitur statement is one which has no relation to the previous
> > statement.
>
> Emphasis added for your benefit:
>
>     The IMPLIED CONCLUSION simply didn't follow.
>
> > In other words, in order to install commercial software...
>
> (by which you mean proprietary software -- of which we were, actually,
> speaking only of the non-redistributable subsect)
>
> > you need only to obtain the installation media and run the appropriate
> > emerge command.
>
> In other words, you're retreating from your earlier, factually mistaken
> assertion that Gentoo, unlike Debian and Ubuntu, includes "software that
> may not be lawfully redistributed, such as proprietary codecs", but
> would prefer that we not notice.
>
> I see.
>
> Of course, that merely takes us _back_ to where we were before you
> butted in to ignorantly and erroneously contradict my explanation, but
> thank you for playing, anyway.
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Rick Moen                      "vi is my shepherd; I shall not font."
> rick at linuxmafia.com                               -- Psalm 0.1 beta
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