On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 11:14:27PM -0300, Werner Almesberger wrote: > Heh, thanks ! :-) I'm happy with that name, too. At Openmoko, I > even managed to establish a better one: to make it easier for us > engineers to install the system on a "virgin" device (i.e., fresh > from the factory), which was a fairly involved process, with JTAG > and so on (the Ben is really easy in comparison), I wrote a > script I jokingly called the "devirginator". > > I expected that someone would quickly find the name inapproriate, > but it passed without comment. I guess that would be different in > a US or EU company :-) > > What I didn't expect was that nobody would bother to actually > make a proper setup process for mass production, and in the end > that very same devirginator ended up in the assembly line at the > factory, with young female factory workers being trained to type > "./devirginate" at the appropriate time ...
I'm surprised you got away with that. And honestly, with sexism in the FLOSS community being a hot topic right now, if I were you I wouldn't be so keen about posting stuff like this on a public mailing list. YMMV. DirtPAN is still a pretty funny and uncontroversial name, though :) -- Andrea Bolognani <[email protected]> Resistance is futile, you will be garbage collected.
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