Ummm.... all this angst about the development nickname stemming from an article in "The Mad Penguin Review"?<br>
I suppose we should concede them some expertise in inflelicitous naming.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/26/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">David M</b> <<a href="mailto:lists2006@viewport.ukfsn.org">lists2006@viewport.ukfsn.org
</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Shot - Piotr Szotkowski wrote in gmane.linux.ubuntu.sounder<br> about: Re: Mad Penguin review
<br><br>> David M:<br>><br>>> I get the impression that quite a few people do find<br>>> the current naming scheme quite seriously embarrassing,<br>><br>> There was a poll[1] about it on the Fridge.
<br>><br>><soapbox><br>> First we lost the best official backgrounds and login screen anyone<br>> ever shipped,<br><br>I was saddened by that as well, but it is a fact that if a distro is looking<br>for worldwide adoption it needs to be slightly cautious with regards to
<br>different levels of cultural acceptability. It was a question of broader<br>acceptability versus broader minds.. <ducks to avoid flamewar> ;-)<br><br><br>> now we're going to lose another nice micro-feature because
<br>> somebody somewhere feels offended/embarassed/whatever.<br><br>See my previous post: I've got nothing against imaginative release<br>names, just as long as they don't sound too childish.. It's a question<br>of finding "balance", again.
<br><br><br>> If Ubuntu wanted to please the easily offended/corporate/white-collars,<br>> the first thing it should change is the name itself.<br><br>I think the name, and what it means, is excellent, and I can't see how
<br>anybody can be offended by the name. Puzzled, perhaps, but not offended.<br><br><br><br>--<br>--| David M. -- [en, fr, (de)] -- | reply-to email is valid <365d, |<br>--| Edinburgh,
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