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List:       fedora-devel-list
Subject:    Re: F35 Change: "Fedora Linux" in /etc/os-release
From:       Jonathan Wakely <jwakely () fedoraproject ! org>
Date:       2021-03-22 14:20:56
Message-ID: 20210322142056.GW3008 () redhat ! com
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On 13/03/21 12:59 -0500, Gerald Henriksen wrote:
>On Sat, 13 Mar 2021 11:00:12 -0500, you wrote:
>
>>On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 08:13:07PM -0500, Gerald Henriksen wrote:
>>> You aren't going to change not just the 15+ year habits of how people
>>> refer to Fedora, but the even longer habits of how people call Linux
>>> distributions.
>>
>>Again, I'm not out to immediately change colloquial usage. Although I *do*
>>think that would be a positive, that's not in scope here. It's about how we
>>formally talk about things ourselves, and this change is just about one very
>>specific small way in which we do that.
>
>So, a community that historically hates typing extra stuff and thus
>likes to remove vowels and occasionally other letters from commands,
>who primarily "talks" via text communication, is suddenly going to add
>the extra word Linux in their communications?

Wouldn't our communications be *informal* and therefore not (in
Matthew's words) "how we formally talk about things ourselves"?

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