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Last Friday 09 July 2004 20:31, RickTaylor@speakeasy.net was like:

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>  I don't see anything wrong with asking. I don't think anyone should be

> "pressuring"

Then we are of one mind. The 'not pressuring' is the important point.
Last Friday 09 July 2004 20:37, Chris Pickett was like:

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> I guess ... I guess I've stopped distinguishing between system and

> application.  Is Mozilla part of the system?  Or is it definitely an

> application?  Do you define application by replaceable, non-essential

> part?  What's essential?  Is X essential?  How about bash?  Is the linux

> kernel even essential?  Can't you run this software with a different

> kernel?  I basically view everything as a set of interoperating programs

> -- including the music stuff -- although I might concede that the kernel

> is perhaps the only "true" system component.

Hmm, Zen mind ...

Surely no application IS the system. All including the kernel can be seen as

separate entities. There is a clear cut definition of which applications are

essential parts of the system, but the system itself is more abstract than

that, more like a protocol in some ways.
Last Friday 09 July 2004 21:30, RickTaylor@speakeasy.net was like:

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>  In other words Photoshop is essential to a graphics system?

Clearly not ;-).
Cue timpani, horns and grand restatement of original themes ...
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tim hall