Anthony Towns wrote: > 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. Indeed it does.
> 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. Debian-Based Distributions Consortium would work, I believe. > 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 -- ksig --random| -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
