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Hans Reiser arrested

Hans Reiser arrested

Posted Oct 11, 2006 22:31 UTC (Wed) by proski (subscriber, #104)
In reply to: Hans Reiser arrested by sdenlinger
Parent article: Hans Reiser arrested

Maybe it's time to stop this tradition of keeping irrelevant patterns while naming software? Windows -> Lindows, Linspire -> Freespire, Firebird -> Firefox, and now ReiserFS -> NinaFS. In my opinion, it's utterly lame. Why do we need any person's name in the filesystem? What if the investigation comes with something that puts Nina in bad light the day after we rename ReiserFS?


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Hans Reiser arrested

Posted Oct 12, 2006 4:15 UTC (Thu) by branden (guest, #7029) [Link]

Maybe it's time to stop this tradition of keeping irrelevant patterns while naming software? Windows -> Lindows, Linspire -> Freespire, Firebird -> Firefox, and now ReiserFS -> NinaFS. In my opinion, it's utterly lame.

I support such renaming for a firmly principled reason:

It's easier to type.

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