[resending, last one was sent from an old email address accidentally - I need to leave and rejoin this ML].
Firstly, you have no idea how most users of Fred feel about this change, so I hope you're not implying that they all agree with you. There is a lot of "argumentum ad populum" going on in this thread. People should speak for themselves. But more importantly, let's pretend that every single Fred user disagreed with changing "Freenet" to "Freenet Classic". As I've already stated - the constituency I'm concerned with is the next generation. So if you've got a compelling factual argument for why you think not doing this will be better for the next generation, then I'm all ears. On Wed, Jan 18, 2023 at 4:47 PM David Dernoncourt <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 18, 2023, at 19:32, Ian Clarke wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 18, 2023 at 11:08 AM David Dernoncourt > > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> As "just a regular user" and node runner who just poked around a few > PRs, the main issues I have with this are 1) "what the Hell is Locutus" and > 2) wow that's confusing. > >> > >> Sure, 1) is just (mostly) a rhetorical question. But it seems quite an > unusual thing to "steal" the name of a software (even more so when said > software is still actively maintained) to stamp it on another software that > doesn't have any relationship with the other one beside being supported by > the same foundation and sharing the same (or a similar enough) mission > statement. > > > > That's not what's happening. The name always belonged to the *mission*, > > not to any particular piece of software. This is why we were careful > > not to tie it to any particular codebase when we wrote it: > > > > Maybe that's how you intended it originally, but with the possible > exceptions of the devs who work on the depot named "fred" and maybe some > users who are really experts and die-hard on wording accuracy, what most > users call "Freenet" is that piece of software that you download from on > this page https://freenetproject.org/pages/download.html that begins with > "Download and install Freenet:" > -- Ian Clarke Founder, The Freenet Project Email: [email protected]
