Dang! What an Idea! [LWN.net]

Dang! What an Idea!

Posted Sep 20, 2004 19:52 UTC (Mon) by huffd (guest, #10382)
Parent article: Linux blunder Down Under could land MPAA in court (ZDNet)

Instead of naming applications after soft-n-fuzzy critters or deep space anomalies. Let's name application packages after movies!
That would get the MPAA's underwear in a bunch.
Geeze, can you imagine if every project at sourceforge was named after a movie??
If Windows was named after a movie it would have to be "Bridge Over River Kwai"! Bwaaahhaaa!!! Ooh, we and it's only Monday..

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Dang! What an Idea!

Posted Sep 20, 2004 21:01 UTC (Mon) by BrucePerens (subscriber, #2510) [Link]

All Debian releases have been named after Toy Story characters. And I don't remember it well, but it could be that "Buzz" came about before the official release of the movie.

Bruce