From: Ari Brown <ari@...>
Date: 2007-07-20T01:36:14+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] Re: Religion (was: god 0.1.0 released)

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Actually, From what I know.....

Daemon was a reference to Maxwell's Demon, a physics demon that kept  
things working in the background. The MIT students then made called  
their background processes 'daemons' in honor of  Maxwell's Demon.

Hope this cleared things up.
~ Ari
English is like a pseudo-random number generator - there are a  
bajillion rules to it, but nobody cares.