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Balancing accessibility and software freedom

Balancing accessibility and software freedom

Posted Aug 5, 2010 12:56 UTC (Thu) by mpr22 (subscriber, #60784)
In reply to: Balancing accessibility and software freedom by elanthis
Parent article: Balancing accessibility and software freedom

"Gnaag" sounds guttural and unpleasant. "GNOME" and "GNU" don't, at least not to my English-speaking audio subsystem. Slightly jarring and pretentious, since the syllable-initial cluster /gn/ violates the contemporary phonotactic constraints of Modern English just about everywhere, but not unpleasant. The "making the name longer" bit, on the other hand, is a very good point.


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