news on this very
> important day of April 1st.
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> Saba Moshe
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> >>>
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> Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 07:40:21 +0300
> From: "Nadav Har'El"
> Subject: Kosher for Passover software
> To: linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il
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> Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 07:40:21 +0300
> From: "Nadav Har'El"
> Subject: Kosher for Passover software
> To: linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il
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Thank you, Nadav, for bringing us these important news on this very
important day of April 1st.
Saba Moshe
>>>
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 07:40:21 +0300
From: "Nadav Har'El"
Subject: Kosher for Passover software
To: linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il
Message-
On Apr 1, 2010, at 6:18 PM, Herouth Maoz wrote:
Apple is a little less lucky, because rumour has it that Steve Jobs
is partly Jewish. Oy.
That's a persistant rumor, that both Steve ("Woz") and Steve (Jobs)
are Jewish. They are not. In fact due to his bilogical father being a
Syrian musl
e local rabbinates sell all of the chometz within their
jurisdiction to a friendly Muslim before Passover.
Here in the Israeli software industry we're in a unique position to
produce
kosher-for-passover software, because most of our programmers eat only
kosher-for-passover food during passover. If we
On Apr 1, 2010, at 5:13 PM, Micha Feigin wrote:
Where can you get kosher for passover dog/cat food? I always have to
stock up
for my cats as the super markets just hide the pet food but never
bring any
alternatives. Not that I know why my cats would want to eat kosher
anyway, but
in cas
u're benefiting from chometz on Passover,
> which is not allowed.
>
> Here in the Israeli software industry we're in a unique position to produce
> kosher-for-passover software, because most of our programmers eat only
> kosher-for-passover food during passover. If we only m
On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 11:21:43AM +0300, geoffrey mendelson wrote:
>
> On Apr 1, 2010, at 11:13 AM, Gabor Szabo wrote:
>>
>> So you say Larry Wall makes all of us Perl programmers greedy?
>>
>> He basically invented the extensive use of the $ signs:
>
>
> I think the Bourne Shell preceeds that by
On Thursday 01 Apr 2010 11:15:59 geoffrey mendelson wrote:
> On Apr 1, 2010, at 10:55 AM, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> > Well, first of all, it should be noted that the "$" sign is generally
> > associated with greed for money (Like "Make $$$ fast.") etc. so this
> > is what
> > people are implying by writ
On Apr 1, 2010, at 11:13 AM, Gabor Szabo wrote:
So you say Larry Wall makes all of us Perl programmers greedy?
He basically invented the extensive use of the $ signs:
I think the Bourne Shell preceeds that by a few years.
Geoff.
--
geoffrey mendelson N3OWJ/4X1GM
Jerusalem Israel geoffr
On Apr 1, 2010, at 10:55 AM, Shlomi Fish wrote:
Well, first of all, it should be noted that the "$" sign is generally
associated with greed for money (Like "Make $$$ fast.") etc. so this
is what
people are implying by writing "M$" instead of "MS". By associating
the "$"
sign with Microsoft,
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 10:55 AM, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> Well, first of all, it should be noted that the "$" sign is generally
> associated with greed for money (Like "Make $$$ fast.") etc.
So you say Larry Wall makes all of us Perl programmers greedy?
He basically invented the extensive use of th
On Thursday 01 Apr 2010 10:30:36 Ilya A. Volynets-Evenbakh wrote:
> On 04/01/10 09:06, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> > Why are you saying "M$" instead of "MS"? Don't you know the dollar
> > signs ("$")
> > is not kosher for Passover since U.S. dollars constitute leavened bread?
> > This makes all Perl, PHP
On 04/01/10 09:06, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> Why are you saying "M$" instead of "MS"? Don't you know the dollar
> signs ("$")
> is not kosher for Passover since U.S. dollars constitute leavened bread? This
> makes all Perl, PHP and Bash/zsh code (And some Ruby and Haskell code) non-
> kosher for Passov
On Thursday 01 Apr 2010 07:53:18 Ilya A. Volynets-Evenbakh wrote:
> On 04/01/10 07:40, Nadav Har'El wrote:
> > We should especially avoid free software - because much of it was written
> > by gentiles who eat bread during Passover!
>
> Following that logic, you should also avoid using any of M$ so
ou use this software, you're benefiting from chometz on Passover,
> which is not allowed.
>
> Here in the Israeli software industry we're in a unique position to produce
> kosher-for-passover software, because most of our programmers eat only
> kosher-for-passover food d
On 04/01/10 07:40, Nadav Har'El wrote:
> We should especially avoid free software - because much of it was written by
> gentiles who eat bread during Passover!
>
>
Following that logic, you should also avoid using any of M$ software,
since it was mostly written by gentiles as well, and sure as h
On 01/04/2010, at 00:40, Nadav Har'El wrote:
> We're in the middle of Passover, and apparently observant Jews who are
> computer users are facing a new problem: a famous Rabbi has just declared [1]
> that during the week of Passover, observant Jews must only use software which
> has been certified
t
"the army marches on its stomache". Likewise, programmers eat, and without
food, there can be no software. If programmers ate chometz on Passover,
and you use this software, you're benefiting from chometz on Passover,
which is not allowed.
Here in the Israeli software industr
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