Very good. The analogy is much more serious than a light-hearted parody.
Thanks Ira,
Michael
On Mon, 25 Apr 2005, Ira Abramov wrote:
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED], from the post of Sat, 23 Apr:
Happy Pesach to all,
For our seder tonight (I'm in CA right now) we're each supposed to bring
something remotely connected with Pesach. Can any of you think of a
connection between Pesach and Linux ?
Obviously you never sat around to actually understand the hagadah.
Excuse me of the following post is a little serious, but I do consider
this subject seriously.
I'm an atheist. Always have been. I have my issues with religion as
manifested in organised religions and unquestioned traditions, not to
mention religious enforcement (if that's a good translation of KFIA
DATIT), however, I am part of the Jewish people, and there are
traditions that bind us beyond religion and those do have deeper
meanings to me that just "a bombastic dinner and reading of boring
texts".
Passover is called "Holiday of Freedom" for a reason, it signifies a mob
of underdogs receiving a definition, dignity, and (for better or for
worse) a destiny. Freedom is a central theme. the sons of Israel are
inflicted with the problematic "slave way of thinking" of their life in
Egypt. They cry to Moses, asking him why they left the "good old
country" where they "sat of a pot of meat" and had "all they ever
wanted", To which Moses answers "we may be poor NOW, but we are FREE,
and that's more important!". 40 years later (double the current age of
the GNU Manifesto) the new generation is now a lot more secure about
living free and is finally poised to inherit the land of Cna'an again,
having exited (not destroyed, just left behind) the house of slavery
(BEIT AVADIM) and congealed a unified and separate identity as a people
with standards and morals.
Do I still need to spell out the similarities, lessons learned,
difficulties on the way to the goal? The Tanakh may be 10% history and
90% myth, but there are still canonical lessons to be learned and there
are indeed meta-stories that echo modern life and struggles.
All jokes aside, the story of the Exodus has everything to do with the
FOSS community, more than any other of the Jewish holidays.
--
A candyman who can
Ira Abramov
http://ira.abramov.org/email/
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