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Re: Intent to mass-file bugs: FDL/incorrect copyright files



On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 04:59:36PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 22:51:42 +1100, Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org> said: 
> > On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 09:37:01PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> >> -- If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a
> >> nail. Maslow
> 
> > Your post above demonstrates this aptly.
> 
> 	And how so, pray tell? What is the "hammer" I have that leads
>  me to classify computer related entities as a) software, b) hardware,
>  or c) wetware? 

The hammer is your extremely limited vocabulary for classifying
computer-related things. Suddenly you've classified everything as
software and lost any subtlety of documentation versus programs
versus data etc.

Hamish
-- 
Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@debian.org> <hamish@cloud.net.au>



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