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Disclaimer: I find this a particularly interesting conversation, and I
am posing genuine questions and thoughts that come to mind. I am not
trying to ruffle any feathers or step on any toes. With that in mind...
On 03/23/2018 11:51 AM, Ivan Zaigralin wrote:
> I'd like to register my dislike of the subjective approach to the name
> similarity issue as well. Not that it doesn't work. I think it works OK,
> because this is not a particularly big deal to begin with. FreeSlack project,
> for example, has always been flexible in that respect, as in, fully
> cooperative. But it would be better to have an objective criterion, like for
> example:
>
> Cannot use nonfree distro name or trademark as a substring in a free distro
> name.
>
> A rule like this would prevent "Slackware Libre", but not "FreeSlack". But
> more crucially, it would be fair, and no one would ever feel like an
> individual reviewer at FSF is yanking their chain just for the fun of it.
>
There's a obvious limit to how far this goes. If this general concept
is pushed to it's logical extreme, then we'd have to drop the GNU-prefix
from everything as well. Because, doesn't the U stand for... Unix?
I started thinking about what a cool name for FreeSlack (which could be
seen as a general term taken from project management theory [1]) would
be if Freenix was rejected for some reason, and FXP wasn't accepted
either.
A couple of joke names came to mind, and I finally settled on:
§NH - which stands for §NH is Not Hyperbola
and was my way of avoiding
§NS , short for §NS is Not Slackware
and, only then I started to wonder if the negation makes things okay.
and then it all clicked into place.
GNU would fail this same criterion if proposed today. Just a thought.
;-)
- krt
[1]
https://www.coursera.org/learn/scope-time-management-cost/lecture/Gsh3x/free-slack
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- Re: [GNU-linux-libre] what of the distros that have already asked for consideration or have been partially evaluated?, (continued)
- Re: [GNU-linux-libre] what of the distros that have already asked for consideration or have been partially evaluated?, KRT Listmaster, 2018/03/21
- Re: [GNU-linux-libre] what of the distros that have already asked for consideration or have been partially evaluated?, Ivan Zaigralin, 2018/03/21
- [GNU-linux-libre] Freeslack website (was: what of the distros that have already asked for consideration or have been partially evaluated?), Henry Jensen, 2018/03/23
- Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Freeslack website, KRT Listmaster, 2018/03/23
- Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Freeslack website, Ivan Zaigralin, 2018/03/23
- Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Freeslack website, bill-auger, 2018/03/23
- Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Freeslack website, Jason Self, 2018/03/24
- Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Freeslack website, bill-auger, 2018/03/23
- Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Freeslack website, Ivan Zaigralin, 2018/03/23
- Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Freeslack website, Ivan Zaigralin, 2018/03/23
- Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Freeslack website,
KRT Listmaster <=
- Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Freeslack website, Ivan Zaigralin, 2018/03/23
- Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Freeslack website, bill-auger, 2018/03/23
Re: [GNU-linux-libre] what of the distros that have already asked for consideration or have been partially evaluated?, Jason Self, 2018/03/21
- Re: [GNU-linux-libre] what of the distros that have already asked for consideration or have been partially evaluated?, Ivan Zaigralin, 2018/03/21
- Re: [GNU-linux-libre] what of the distros that have already asked for consideration or have been partially evaluated?, Jason Self, 2018/03/22
- Re: [GNU-linux-libre] what of the distros that have already asked for consideration or have been partially evaluated?, Donald Robertson, 2018/03/22
- Re: [GNU-linux-libre] what of the distros that have already asked for consideration or have been partially evaluated?, bill-auger, 2018/03/22
- Re: [GNU-linux-libre] what of the distros that have already asked for consideration or have been partially evaluated?, bill-auger, 2018/03/22
- Re: [GNU-linux-libre] what of the distros that have already asked for consideration or have been partially evaluated?, Ivan Zaigralin, 2018/03/22
- Re: [GNU-linux-libre] what of the distros that have already asked for consideration or have been partially evaluated?, bill-auger, 2018/03/22