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List:       userlinux-discuss
Subject:    Re: [Discuss] proposal for name
From:       Jean Pierre Rupp <jpierre () xg ! homelinux ! com>
Date:       2004-01-31 23:29:36
Message-ID: 1075591776.1716.4.camel () marte ! localdomain
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El vie, 30-01-2004 a las 14:11, Ernesto escribió:
> Il gio, 2004-01-29 alle 17:03, hazzmat ha scritto:
> > Hello, new to the list. I know this is late but well, I don't mind being 
> > late because the name thing is still a problem.
> > Therefore I propose:
> > 
> > De Facto Linux
> > or
> > DeFacto Linux
> > 
> 
> Althoug I like the idea, I guess it might have negative political
> connotation in countries that were under a dictatorship (like Argentina
> and big part of Latin America).
> 
> We had a "Gobierno de facto". I don't think we want a "Linux de facto"
> right now.

That's right, the only thing I like about de-facto things is standards,
and I don't want any distribution to become a de-facto distribution,
when they say de-facto operating system, it sends shivers down my spine
and I think about Windows

-- 
Jean Pierre Rupp
jpierre@cantv.net
www.xg.homelinux.com

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