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Hans Reiser arrested

Posted Oct 12, 2006 4:15 UTC (Thu) by branden (guest, #7029)
In reply to: Hans Reiser arrested by proski
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.

I support such renaming for a firmly principled reason:

It's easier to type.

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