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Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)



On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 11:42:48AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 12:02:44 -0500, Nathan Hawkins <utsl@quic.net> said: 
> 
> > Your proposal would change that. I oppose it, and I would oppose it
> > just the same if you wanted to call them Loki, Kali or Hitler. (To
> > pick a few at random.) Using names of evil, real or imagined, is not
> > something that would be helpful to Debian. That kind of publicity we
> > don't need.
> 
>          Excuse me? Since when is Kali, the name of one of my Godesses,
>  a name of evil? What do you have against my religion? I am not happy
>  with you bandying around such aspersions.

I think this is what my momma meant when she told me to avoid 3 subjects 
in general conversation: politics, sex, religion.

It might offend your freedom of speech but I think we should just all 
agree to drop it, and avoid subjects like this in future.



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