[Mageia-discuss] New name for cooker

Maarten Vanraes maarten.vanraes at gmail.com
Tue Sep 21 19:45:09 CEST 2010


Op dinsdag 21 september 2010 18:35:18 schreef Ahmad Samir:
> On 21 September 2010 18:51, John Keller <mageia at johnkeller.com> wrote:
[...]
> > Also, I've already seen one comment on DistroWatch from an Islamic user
> > saying that he wasn't going to be able to use Mageia because of the
> > Quran's views on magic. I'm not sure if he was serious or not, but
> > certainly someone would be about that. I'm not suggesting we dig the
> > hole any deeper, but at least if there's going to be a deal-breaker with
> > strictly religious users, it probably won't be the name of the dev
> > branch.
> 
> I think he has a misconception/a-bit-of-misinformation there; The
> "magic" that's mentioned and forbidden in the Quaran isn't the "I get
> a rabbit out of my hat so quickly you think I am magical" kind, i.e.
> not the hocus pocus / sleight of hand kind at all.

Can i ask what _is_ referred to?


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