Re: Renaming the Debian Project

2016-01-02 Thread gaffa
You are either playing an artificial character or you are simply not very good at reading people and interpreting text. I hope you find more constructive things to do in the future. I hope you find happiness and love. Thank you Ian, for initiating this great community. Your legacy will not be for

Re: Renaming the Debian Project

2015-12-31 Thread Ehud Gavron
I love it that trolls have the same freedom of speech to spew their crap that I have to defend against it. I mourn Ian's loss. I respect his right to choose his words. I VOW to SUPPORT the DEBIAN concept, distribution, and works. There's no racism here. Nor is there any room for trolls. FUCK p

Re: Renaming the Debian Project

2015-12-31 Thread keito
I believe Debian should retain its name, for the following reasons... * Debian is a well known brand. * Name changes are disruptive. Lot's of work would be involved in updating documentation and branding. * It would lead to confusion for users trying to search for help

Re: Renaming the Debian Project

2015-12-30 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 31/12/15 04:22, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 02:03:40PM -0800, benjamin barber wrote: >> It's unfortunate that Debian is named after Debra and Ian, >> because having the project named after a white supremacist, who >> used his ex-wifes name as an trophy. > > I agree in whol

RE: Renaming the Debian Project

2015-12-30 Thread Manuel
IMHO: Two words for those proposing it: attention whores From: Jeff Garra Sent: Wednesday, December 30, 2015 10:00 PM To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Cc: debian-proj...@lists.debian.org; debian-devel@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Renaming the Debian Project "Being that the current ye

Re: Renaming the Debian Project

2015-12-30 Thread Ben Finney
Steve Langasek writes: > On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 02:03:40PM -0800, benjamin barber wrote: > > It's unfortunate that Debian is named after Debra and Ian, because having > > the project named after a white supremacist, who used his ex-wifes name as > > an trophy. > > I agree in whole with the respo

Re: Renaming the Debian Project

2015-12-30 Thread Jeff Garra
"Being that the current year is almost 2016 and is 20 years after Debian started" Yes, let's rename a project because of an arbitrary date. That makes perfect sense. No it doesn't, that is absurd. "because having the project named after a white supremacist" Those are some pretty serious accusati

Re: Renaming the Debian Project

2015-12-30 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 02:03:40PM -0800, benjamin barber wrote: > It's unfortunate that Debian is named after Debra and Ian, because having > the project named after a white supremacist, who used his ex-wifes name as > an trophy. I agree in whole with the responses of my fellow developers Dimitri

Re: Renaming the Debian Project

2015-12-30 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 02:03:40PM -0800, benjamin barber wrote: > It's unfortunate that Debian is named after Debra and Ian, because having the > project named after a white supremacist, who used his ex-wifes name as an > trophy. Being that the current year is almost 2016 and is 20 years after >

Re: Renaming the Debian Project

2015-12-30 Thread larocca
On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 02:03:40PM -0800, benjamin barber wrote: > It's unfortunate that Debian is named after Debra and Ian, because having > the project named after a white supremacist, who used his ex-wifes name as > an trophy. Being that the current year is almost 2016 and is 20 years after > D

Re: Renaming the Debian Project

2015-12-30 Thread Hans
Am Mittwoch, 30. Dezember 2015, 22:31:14 schrieb Dimitri John Ledkov: > Hello, > > Your email is highly insensitive due to impeccable timing. > Hi all, I think (and this is honest), debian should keep its name. It honours the founders for theire great idea and theire vision. Doing so, they w

Re: Renaming the Debian Project

2015-12-30 Thread Ben Finney
Dimitri John Ledkov writes: > Your email is highly insensitive due to impeccable timing. Given the complete lack of citation for any of the outlandish claims, I suspect the timing and insensitivity of the original post was entirely intentional. -- \ “Very few things happen at the right t

Re: Renaming the Debian Project

2015-12-30 Thread Fuller, Lee
On 2015-12-30 22:03, benjamin barber wrote: > It's unfortunate that Debian is named after Debra and Ian, because having the > project named after a white supremacist, who used his ex-wifes name as an > trophy. Being that the current year is almost 2016 and is 20 years after > Debian started

Re: Renaming the Debian Project

2015-12-30 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
Hello, Your email is highly insensitive due to impeccable timing. At the present moment Debian project mourns the passing of Ian Murdock. https://bits.debian.org/2015/12/mourning-ian-murdock.html A lot of Debian Developers and the wider Debian community have great respect for the amazing things

Re: Renaming the Debian Project

2015-12-30 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 30/12/15 23:03, benjamin barber wrote: > It's unfortunate that Debian is named after Debra and Ian, because > having the project named after a white supremacist, who used his > ex-wifes name as an trophy. Being that the current year is almost 2016 > and is 20 years after Debian started, we sho