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Re: [directory-discuss] Antifeatures - Names with Controversial Terms: l


From: David Hedlund
Subject: Re: [directory-discuss] Antifeatures - Names with Controversial Terms: linux
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2017 09:10:56 +0100
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"Circus GNU and Linux" can be used.

On 12 January 2017 00:17:32 CET, "Greg Rundlett (freephile)" <address@hidden> wrote:
This is complete folly.  Tilting at windmills.  The horse has left the barn.  There is so much OTHER work to do which has real benefits for Free Software users, developers and the movement.

Case in point: Circus Linux https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Circus_Linux#tab=Overview
The FSD in 2017 shames them with a scarlet letter for not calling the software "Circus GNU/Linux"?

People like short names. period. full-stop. They're easier to say, type, spell, fit on a sheet of paper. My name is Gregory.  I don't even call myself that. And nobody calls me Gregory Scott Rundlett except on my driver's license.  So when naming a piece of software, people come up with whatever is short, and catchy.  If a game is called Circus Linux, we should be happy and proud that it was ported run in a Linux environment.

And just as pertinent is the fact that the software was developed 17 YEARS AGO (ftp://ftp.tuxpaint.org/unix/x/circus-linux/CHANGES.txt). Are the developers going to change the name today?  Would that please anybody?

Circus Linux is a variant of a variant of an arcade game called "Circus"; which was later adapted to play on the Atari console, thus "Circus Atari". And finally, a version was made to play on GNU/Linux, and it was named "Circus Linux". http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/circus-linux/

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