On Wed, Jan 18, 2023, 4:47 PM David Dernoncourt <m...@daviddernoncourt.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 18, 2023, at 19:32, Ian Clarke wrote: > > That's not what's happening. The name always belonged to the *mission*, > > not to any particular piece of software. This is why we were careful > > not to tie it to any particular codebase when we wrote it: > > Maybe that's how you intended it originally, but with the possible > exceptions of the devs who work on the depot named "fred" and maybe some > users who are really experts and die-hard on wording accuracy, what most > users call "Freenet" is that piece of software that you download from on > this page https://freenetproject.org/pages/download.html that begins with > "Download and install Freenet:" > Firstly, you have no idea how most users of Fred feel about this change, so I hope you're not implying that they all agree with you. There is a lot of "argumentum ad populum" going on in this thread. People should speak for themselves. But more importantly, let's pretend that every single Fred user disagreed with changing "Freenet" to "Freenet Classic". As I've already stated - the constituency I'm concerned with is the next generation. So if you've got a compelling factual argument for why you think not doing this will be better for the next generation, then I'm all ears. Ian.
