[Nottingham] NLUG: What's in a name?

Mat Booth mbooth at fedoraproject.org
Thu Jun 9 21:15:36 UTC 2011


On 9 June 2011 21:52, Joshua Lock <incandescant at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Now don't get me wrong, I have a lot of love for GNU and what Stallman
> and the FSF have done but I don't feel that the distinction is
> worthwhile to site visitors.
>
> The people who care know what it means and the people who don't may
> well learn in time.
>

Indeed. In free software development circles, we call this
bikeshedding[1] and is something I just can't bring myself to care
about.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_Law_of_Triviality


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