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 -- This email account is used for list management only. https://strangetimes.observer/
