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Re: Submission for "Most Curious, 3rd Millenium AD"



On Sun, 2002-12-29 at 02:18, Peter Makholm wrote:
> Alexander Hvostov <alex@aoi.dyndns.org> writes:
> 
> > 'sid' is an acronym for 'Still In Development'. It is synonymous with
> > 'unstable', and is a holdover from when there was no 'testing'. At that
> 
> [...]
> 
> > Everything else is from Toy Story (2). This is because Bruce Perens
> > worked for Pixar during much of his Debian career.
> 
> Just for the record: Sid was the boy next door that broke his toys and
> made Frankensteinstein toys out of it.
                   ^^^^^
error <stdin>:13: unknown suffix `stein'

So 'sid' might be a backronym. My point still stands, though.

Alex.

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