Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)
Nathan Hawkins <utsl@quic.net> writes:
> On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 04:27:27PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
>> > > Well, no offense, but that's ugly as hell, and is going to square the
>> > > amount of confusion people experience when trying to decode our OS
>> > > names.
>> >
>> > Agreed, unfortunately - it is, and I suspect it may well. Suggestions for
>> > better naming welcome, of course (or even a direction to go in).
>>
>> We might use names from Christian demonology (since the BSD mascot
>> is the cute and devilish "daemon"), with the first letter shared by the
>> demon's name and the corresponding BSD flavor.
>>
>> Thus:
>>
>> Debian FreeBSD -> Debian Forneus (BSD)
>> Debian NetBSD -> Debian Naberius (BSD)
>> Debian OpenBSD -> Debian Orobos (BSD)
>>
>> I got these names from the Wikipedia <URL:
>> http://en2.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_specific_demons_and_types_of_demons>.
>>
>> Moreover, none of these names are currently registered with the USPTO,
>> so we'd be set in that department.
>
> I'm not opposed to anything else you've said. I do believe these
> particular names are a bad idea, however. One of the reasons the BSD
> mascot is considered "cute" is that it has no real connection with
> demons, in name, or otherwise. Which to people of several religions are
> _not_ cute.
Thanks for raising this point. I'm very interested in the Debian
GNU/*BSD efforts, but if named as such I would never consider using
them (the BSD daemon is, to my mind, only borderline acceptable as it
is).
I'd be happy with an alternate name, which didn't have such unpleasant
and unholy connotations. I don't have any good ideas as or an
alternative right now--it's worse than a tiebreaker!
Regards,
Roger
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