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From: peter@citylink.dinoex.sub.org (Peter Much)
Subject: Naming things (was: Re: FreeBSD social event Sept. 2/3)
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Date: Tue, 15 Aug 1995 15:58:29 GMT
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In article <40mmgh$cuo@agate.berkeley.edu>,
Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh@violet.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>In article <40mb4i$aei@masala.cc.uh.edu>,
>Woody Jin <wjin@hermes.cs.uh.edu> wrote:
>>I suggest that the name FreeBSD be changed to a better one.
>>I understand that most FreeBSD users are unix experts, and they understand
>>what is going on. However, majority others are not, and they don't bother
>>to be.
>
>Sorry, Woody, but that's just too impractical. We've already been
>through this before, and all that the various anti-FreeBSD folks
>could say was that we needed "a better name." When pressed for
>actual SUGGESTIONS they either shrugged and said "I don't know,
>something better than FreeBSD" (really big help, thanks) or suggested
>something even worse, like "OpenBSD."
>
>People who pick an OS based on its name will always be people
>who pick things for the wrong reasons, and I'm not really much
Oh well - naming things is a magician's work, and names are one of
the strongest (subconscious) magick of the whole mankind. Maybe
even the reason for the EXISTENCE of mankind...
Good suggestions? Out of thin air I would suggest Public Code BSD,
that gives PC-BSD as an acronym... don't know if somebody occupies
this already...
But i think it's too late now to do renaming...
>In the final analysis, the name means very little. Would you
>buy a computer called a "banana?" This evidently didn't stop
>several million Apple users from flocking in droves to that machine
>when it first came out in the '70s.
This, too, is much deeper magick. The apple is a symbol for knowledge,
even for forbidden (elitarian) knowledge - from genesis! The layout
of that special apple makes it very clear that that indeed is the in-
tended association!
Magick works, believe it or not! :-))
>months debating a new name for FreeBSD I'd much rather put the energy
>into _improving the product_. Sorry, I'm just kind of silly that
>way.. :-)
Don't worry - such stuff is a magician's work, not a hacker's/developer's
work.
Peter
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