Re: org.gnu vs. gnu (was Re: Congratulations)

1999-09-13 Thread Brian Jones
"John Keiser" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Frankly, there are only going to be a few major contributors whose toolkits are going to be *extremely* widely used, and GNU is probably one of them. Making it easy to type and use and think about (less mental friction) is a good thing. Although not

RE: org.gnu vs. gnu (was Re: Congratulations)

1999-09-13 Thread John Keiser
's ugly. I truly do not know what "most people" think. --John Keiser -Original Message- From: Thomas J Lukasik [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, September 12, 1999 9:19 PM To: John Keiser; Classpat 2 Subject: Re: org.gnu vs. gnu (was Re: Congratulations)

Re: org.gnu vs. gnu (was Re: Congratulations)

1999-09-13 Thread Wes Biggs
Hey, I've got a great solution. We start a "gnu" TLD to go along with "com", "org", etc. Problem solved, everyone's happy, we all find more constructive things to debate and/or get on with writing code. Wes

Re: org.gnu vs. gnu (was Re: Congratulations)

1999-09-13 Thread Aaron M. Renn
Wow. This is the most discussion we've had on any topic in a long time around here. This is the most ridiculous thing to have a flame war about ever. So I'll pledge to stop right here. Everyone else can send one more message if they want to. The vast bulk of what we are writing is in the

Re: org.gnu vs. gnu (was Re: Congratulations)

1999-09-13 Thread Michael Stevens
On Sun, Sep 12, 1999 at 11:13:37PM -0700, John Keiser wrote: OK, here it is in writing: I am absolutely serious, "org.gnu" takes more energy than "gnu". But it's not about typing energy, it's about thinking energy, the minimization of which is (IMO) one of the principal factors in designing

Re: org.gnu vs. gnu (was Re: Congratulations)

1999-09-13 Thread Thomas J Lukasik
Thomas J Lukasik [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Classpath [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Monday, September 13, 1999 1:19 AM Subject: RE: org.gnu vs. gnu (was Re: Congratulations) OK, here it is in writing: I am absolutely serious, "org.gnu" takes more energy than "gnu". But it's not ab

Re: org.gnu vs. gnu (was Re: Congratulations)

1999-09-13 Thread Thomas J Lukasik
someone **begs** me to come out of retirement =8j) TJL -Original Message- From: Wes Biggs [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: John Keiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Thomas J Lukasik [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Classpath [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Monday, September 13, 1999 2:10 AM Subject: Re: org.gnu vs. gnu (was Re: Co

org.gnu vs. gnu (was Re: Congratulations)

1999-09-12 Thread Thomas Down
"Aaron M. Renn" wrote: I'm opposed to org.gnu for the same reason that I hate email addresses of the form [EMAIL PROTECTED] It purports to be some type of globally unique identifier when in fact it is not. In the meantime, it requires names that are extremely verbose. At my last company

RE: org.gnu vs. gnu (was Re: Congratulations)

1999-09-12 Thread John Keiser
: org.gnu vs. gnu (was Re: Congratulations) "Aaron M. Renn" wrote: I'm opposed to org.gnu for the same reason that I hate email addresses of the form [EMAIL PROTECTED] It purports to be some type of globally unique identifier when in fact it is not. In the meantime, it requ