May 23, 2000
3:40 p.m.
Peter Funk <pf@artcom-gmbh.de>:
(and this would also be "carrying owls to Athen" for Linux systems) [I don't know whether this ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ careless translated german idiom makes any sense in english ;-) ]
There is a precise equivalent: "carrying coals to Newcastle". -- <a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr">Eric S. Raymond</a> "Are we to understand," asked the judge, "that you hold your own interests above the interests of the public?" "I hold that such a question can never arise except in a society of cannibals." -- Ayn Rand