> > > > Thus: > > > > Debian FreeBSD -> Debian Forneus (BSD) > > Debian NetBSD -> Debian Naberius (BSD) > > Debian OpenBSD -> Debian Orobos (BSD) > > > > I got these names from the Wikipedia <URL: > > http://en2.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_specific_demons_and_types_of_demons>. > > > > Moreover, none of these names are currently registered with the USPTO, > > so we'd be set in that department. > > I'm not opposed to anything else you've said. I do believe these > particular names are a bad idea, however. One of the reasons the BSD > mascot is considered "cute" is that it has no real connection with > demons, in name, or otherwise. Which to people of several religions are > _not_ cute. > > Your proposal would change that. I oppose it, and I would oppose it just > the same if you wanted to call them Loki, Kali or Hitler. (To pick a few > at random.) Using names of evil, real or imagined, is not something > that would be helpful to Debian. That kind of publicity we don't need. >
Debian wishes to make a port to one of the spreadly known and used Operating system basic, *BSD. However, I think what *BSD (as talked above and more specifically NetBSD) claims is of diluting the NetBSD trademark. Are they talking about the whole Operating System or just about the kernel? What Debian aims is not porting to an operating system as a whole. That would be nonsense since Debian is an operating system that does not depend on the kernel it uses. It is such a abstraction you use the term "operating system kernel" not including the hardware architecture it works on. When you use Linux on i386 or sparc64, you do not realise the difference between both architechture as a whole. So what makes Linux that works on i386 and Linux works on sparc64 different when using a trademark. Do we specifically make the distinguish using Linux/i386, and Linux/sparc64? and When I use such naming schedule what kind of a trademark dilution do I make? What we aim, of course, here, is officially giving a name to a userland+kernel as a whole. We are looking for a name for the concept "Debian which is working on the kernel NetBSD". So, rather than modifying the name to Debian/KLNMOPRSTUWVYZABVCBSD, we'd better let NetBSD people find an effective name for us that the point "not diluting the NetBSD trademark". And what I wonder as a second is what kind of a difference they make when they are calling an Operating System and Operating System Kernel. What is the name of NetBSD kernel? In case they use the both names interchangable, they'd better find a name, for us to use, which is not far from the concept of the project. I'd not use Debian/Forbeis to point logically Debian/FreeBSD. This means nothing to a person which hears that first except that he finds that something related to Debian.