On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 11:34:41AM -0700, Bruce Perens wrote: > This latest round was provoked by the DCC announcement. I participated > in the DCCA meeting yesterday evening. The organization has agreed to > call themselves the Debian Common Core Association in order to make it > more clear that they aren't in control of Debian. If other changes are > required, they will be cooperative. I don't think that helps -- the issue here seems (to me) to be the use of the word "core". The "core" of Debian is Debian, not some third party consortium or association or what have you, and naming the group does seem likely to cause confusion as to what the relationship between Debian and this group is. There were, at some point, some rumours that the group was going to be basing its product on Progeny's Componentized Linux; in which case it might be reasonable to call it the "Componentized Debian Consortium" or similar, which doesn't seem as likely to cause the confusion the word "core" does. Personally, I don't think any external project should be putting the words "core" and "Debian" together, whether its led by Ian Murdock or not. Cheers, aj
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