Re: Debian trademark [was: Debian GNU/w32, may ready to be started?]
On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 06:59:41PM -0500, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> > The first thing that comes to people's minds when they think of
> > 'Debian'[1] is "free operating system". Many people believe there is
> > value in this connotation. A port of Debian to win32 is /not/ a free
> > operating system, it's a collection of free software running on a
> > proprietary operating system. Using the same "Debian" name for both
> > things would dilute this connotation. Is that what we, as a community,
> > would want?
>
> I understand your position here, and it comes close to convincing me that
> you may be right, except that I am still not convinced that this is
> anything more than neurotic fear of non-free associations. I don't fear
> the association, even with Windblows ... it can only make us look better.
neurotic
adj 1: characteristic of or affected by neurosis; "neurotic
disorder"; "neurotic symptoms"
2: affected with emotional disorder [syn: {psychoneurotic}]
[ant: {unneurotic}]
Doesn't seem to be anything neurotic about fear of non-free
associations to me.[1] Plus, I wouldn't want my time wasted by people
whining about bugs caused by MS braindamage. I (and I expect a lot of
other people) am not going to contort my code in order to accomodate
such absurdities - if it doesn't autobuild, it will probably never get
built.
[1] "Debian... isn't that the crappy DOS box for windows?"
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