[Gllug] bash-tips, learning styles and lofty pursuits

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David Damerell wrote:
> On Monday, 19 Apr 2010, - Tethys wrote:
>   
>> Well no. If we're being pedantic (and I am), OS X *is* Unix. Linux,
>> however, is not.
>>     
>
> Pedantry does not enable one to insist that a word only means what it
> does in a specific context. This is just the "ha, ha, organic food,
> you could hardly have inorganic food" quibble with a different hat on.
>
> Linux isn't UNIX (R) but it is Unix in the sense the word was being
> used; more so than Mac OS X is.
>
>   

If one wanted to be REALLY pedantic pedantry DOES enable one to insist
anything one likes irrespective of it's actual correctness ;)

Roger.
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