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Author: KatolaZ
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To: Matteo Panella
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Subject: Re: [Dng] :^)
On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 10:31:56PM +0200, Matteo Panella wrote:
> On 22/10/2014 21:08, Jaromil wrote:
> > The Dng acronym stands for Debian is Not GNOME.
>
> Come to think of it, I strongly disagree with this wording.
> First and foremost: we're misusing two trademarks, and you can be sure
> they'd use them to shut us down before we can even say "Hello, World".
> Second, it's a *very* loaded name: this essentially lends credit to
> Marco d'Itri's statement that people who oppose systemd are just a bunch
> of trolls.
>
> We can still refer to DNG as that inter nos, but we definitely need a
> better backronym :-)


Hi,

I tend to agree with the necessity of avoiding to mention GNOME or
systemd or anything else in an acronym. This is not a crusade against
a particular package/software/subsystem, but a necessary response to a
drift from the principles which inspired the Debian Project,
i.e. making a universal OS which cares for the necessities of its
users and of the Free Software community at large.

My2Cents

KatolaZ


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