[Gllug] FLOSS

[Stephen Harker]

On Wednesday 05 Nov 2003 10:55 am, Pete Ryland wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 10:26:51AM +0000, Andrew Halliwell wrote:
> > And verily, didst Mark Preston announce to the hordes:
> > > I thought that being daft was more or less de rigueur when it comes to
> > > producing free software acronyms. How else do you remain serious when
> > > explaining names that derive from amongst others a Red Indian, a garden
> > > ornament, a dog, a wildebeest, a Brazilian dance, a comedy series and a
> > > duck?
> >
> > You forgot the rubber bondage slave.
>
> The GIMP? :-)  It's funny how successful commercial software often has very
> generic names like "Word" and "Windows", whereas successful free software
> has such quirky names.  Maybe it's just a co-incidence.
>
> BTW, there's also the lizard, the sailing ship and the burning bird (all
> browsers).
>
> I think we'd better leave alone the codename for the latest MS Windows.

I'm trying to think of suitable metaphors for bind, slap, slurp, finger and 
grotty but this is a family list :-)

SteveH


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