[I am not subscribed to debian-bsd.] On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 02:49:39PM -0500, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 07:03:25PM -0500, Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> was heard to say: > > [I am not subscribed to debian-bsd.] > > > > On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 08:21:30PM +0100, Roland Mas wrote: > > > I'll suggest Offler (or Om), Foorgol (I don't like Fate) and, um, > > > some other god coming out of Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels, > > > preferably whose name starts with an N. > > > > > > Or something like that. > > > > Mr. Pratchett's attorneys might take exception to that. > > If that's a real concern, then Ogg Vorbis is in a lot of trouble. :) Ah; I knew the "Ogg Vorbis" name came from contemporary fiction, but I've never read Pratchett (my two most recent reads have been _Blinded by the Right_ by David Brock and _Understanding Power_ by Noam Chomsky -- not the sort of works that are useful for mining code names :) ). Given that apparently unchallenged precedent, I'd agree it's unlikely that Pratchett names are risky choices. Still the nice thing about using old, old names like the ones I proposed is that you can be almost positive no one has a leg to stand on in any claim to "own" the name. -- G. Branden Robinson | A fundamentalist is someone who Debian GNU/Linux | hates sin more than he loves branden@debian.org | virtue. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- John H. Schaar
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