On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 12:15 -0600, Gian Paolo Mureddu wrote: > I must confess that the disease names (Marfan, Asperger, Tourette) Or > the beast names (Dragicorn, Chupacabra, Woodwoose, Barmanou), are rather > out of place... Especially the disease one... If you take into account > what each of these syndromes affects, what's the message?. Since > Werewolf, seems like mythic fauna has been set as a theme, of these new > names I like Dragicorn the best, as the others have rather... odd > associations (do we really want to link Fedora to a 'Sasquatch' or > 'hominid' ape? Not to mention to the bloodsucking 'Chupacabra'?). The > heroic character Chingachgook could be good name, but are we the last of > our kind? Wouldn't 'Kingsport Town' infringe on copyrights due to the > Song of the same name (by Bob Dylan for the curious)? And what's the > reasoning behind the Mayonnaise name, anyway? I don't see Fedora being a > 'condiment' of any sort. For what it's worth, a friend of mine who attended my university's School of Engineering told me a great story about a professor who started the first day of class with the thunderous and stentorian proclamation: "There is NO engineering problem which cannot be solved with the right amount of mayonnaise." -- Paul W. Frields, RHCE http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 Fedora Project: http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug
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