Re: names

[bruce@va.debian.org]

From: Behan Webster <behanw@verisim.com>
> I can see where you're coming from, however the term "Daemon" is in the
> same boat and I don't think (many) people object to that.

Not really, because not as many people are acculturated to use respectful
language about daemons as about the deity. Anyway, most of them are
referred to as "servers" these days, really only a few things like cron
are daemons.

I worked with an operator who would never chmod a file to 666 because
it was the number of the beast, and a systems programmer who would not
allow a user to have the login name "godzilla" because it contained
the sub-string "god". This was on Long Island, not the deep south.
There are enough people like this that marketing should consider them.

	Thanks

	Bruce