On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 12:24:31AM -0500, Nathan Hawkins wrote:
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 05:29:48PM -0700, Joel Baker wrote:
My impression is that this will not satisfy The NetBSD Foundation, though
they could always suprise me. In part, their objection appears to be using
the bareword
Joel == Joel Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Joel On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 10:33:30AM +0200, Momchil Velikov wrote:
How can the use of ``NetBSD'' dilute the trademark, when it refers
to a piece of the same software ?
Joel Basically, saying Debian GNU/NetBSD could be read as implying
Joel We're
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 12:44:07PM -0500, Nathan Hawkins wrote:
On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 02:58:42PM -0700, Joel Baker wrote:
I really need to sit down and write a proposal / patches for NetBSD to
support the 'vendor' sysctl tree, that can be checked usefully. Since that
would be the
On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, Branden Robinson wrote:
Catholics compared to their Protestant brethren. I should think if
anyone were taught demonology these days, it would be kids in Catholic
I knew all about demons around that age, and I'm not even a religious
person.
Doom taught me everything I
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On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 11:00:56PM -0600, Graham Wilson wrote:
On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 11:11:20AM -0700, Joel Baker wrote:
Unfortunately, my experience with the topic tends to indicate that the
same folks who care are very likely to consider there mere
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 11:10:24AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
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On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 08:15:04AM -0700, Joel Baker wrote:
Actually, given that I'm a long-time and deep-seated Tolkien geek, I rather
like the notion of using the Valar - they're
On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 11:03:00PM +, Roger Leigh wrote:
Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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What would be unacceptable about it, and why is it only a borderline
case? What would push it over the borderline?
Demons are evil,
Demons
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On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 01:41:50AM +0100, Christoph Berg wrote:
I consider myself educated, and I've never heard of any demons in school
where we had 13 years of religious (catholic) education. I can
definitely say that I'm not offended, and I doubt that
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 10:54:15AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
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On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 06:00:21PM -0700, Joel Baker wrote:
Even so, I'm amenable to anyone who can come up with names which are less
loaded to random fundamentalists, if possible; of
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On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 11:37:44PM -0500, Nathan Hawkins wrote:
On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 06:53:15PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
I doubt you'd have known they were names from Christian demonology if I
hadn't told you. I didn't propse that we use better
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On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 11:01:49AM +0100, David Weinehall wrote:
Branden's second proposal of using something from Pratchett did have a
nice ring to it, [...]
That wasn't my proposal; it was made by Roland Mas in Message-ID:
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G.
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[We're back off-topic for -legal.]
On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 07:33:17PM -0500, Brian T. Sniffen wrote:
Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have little patience for superstitious beliefs, and less still for
people who claim to be defending the
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On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 01:24:34PM -0600, Paul Baker wrote:
On Dec 13, 2003, at 3:27 PM, Branden Robinson wrote:
Thus:
Debian FreeBSD - Debian Forneus (BSD)
Debian NetBSD - Debian Naberius (BSD)
Debian OpenBSD - Debian Orobos
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On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 08:15:04AM -0700, Joel Baker wrote:
Actually, given that I'm a long-time and deep-seated Tolkien geek, I rather
like the notion of using the Valar - they're fictional, and Tolkien's work
isn't yet out from under copyright, but they
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 02:08:44AM +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 11:54:09AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
No, it's probably antipathy for the Free Software Foundation driving
this more than anything else.
Maybe they'd prefer Debian
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 04:42:28PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
Well, just for the record, i personnally would prefer we don't use
demon name for keyword if possible.
Forgive me for the gratuitous Harry Potter reference, but fear of a
name increases fear for the thing itself. ;-p
IOW, lighten up,
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 09:09:37AM -0700, Joel Baker wrote:
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 10:54:15AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
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On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 06:00:21PM -0700, Joel Baker wrote:
Even so, I'm amenable to anyone who can come up with names which
Nathan Hawkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If you wanted Greek names, there are plenty of obscure nymphs, satyrs,
centaurs, etc. to choose from. Since the Greeks classified them as
neither evil spirits nor deities, many of them would qualify as daemons
in the classical sense.
We could also go
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 11:26:10AM -0600, Chad Walstrom wrote:
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 04:42:28PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
Well, just for the record, i personnally would prefer we don't use
demon name for keyword if possible.
Forgive me for the gratuitous Harry Potter reference, but fear
On Mon, 15 Dec 2003, Joel Baker wrote:
Besides, using Tolkien names is a long geek tradition.
And that's what's wrong with it. The association of geeks and Tolkien is
such a cliche[1] Same goes for Pratchett (not to mention he is rather
overrated in my opinion.)
No if you're going to go
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