On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 1:35 PM, Justin Krejci <jus at krytosvirus.com> wrote: > Having never heard of SubGenius, I greatly appreciate your indignation > at the Slackware linux name to the point that you decided to comment on > it on here so I can learn about it. > I actually have to second that. > As cited in the referenced Wikipedia article, this slashdot interview > indicates it > was SubGenius inspired. > http://slashdot.org/interviews/00/03/17/1120205.shtml > Correct me if I'm wrong, but the whole subgenius thing seems like a satirical take on religion? Seems like Justin (the original objector) has objected to a literal interpretation of satire. > I would imagine there is a great > deal of code in every distro that is written by people who have some > opinions that are in extreme opposition to your own yet I doubt you'd > decide to stop using their awesome programs for that reason alone > (assuming hypothetical code was awesome). > I'm suddenly reminded of the bohemian couple in the first episode of Portlandia who try to order the most ethical meal possible in a restaurant. -Rob -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20110119/f80bd095/attachment.htm