It's not a bad idea naming a fedora release after Dennis Ritchie as a tribute. I think is a great idea. El 02/05/2012 19:12, "Antonio Olivares" <olivares14...@yahoo.com> escribió:
> > > --- On Wed, 5/2/12, Chris Adams <cmad...@hiwaay.net> wrote: > > > From: Chris Adams <cmad...@hiwaay.net> > > Subject: Re: Fedora 18 release name > > To: "Community support for Fedora users" <users@lists.fedoraproject.org> > > Date: Wednesday, May 2, 2012, 3:13 PM > > Once upon a time, Alan Cox <a...@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> > > said: > > > You can have fun with physicists 8) > > > > As a mathematician, I look at "spherical" and want to ask if > > Fedora > > accepts the Axiom of Choice - if so, we can have two > > identical spherical > > cows, but who really wants to decompose a cow to get > > there. Of course, > > we'd have to call F19 Banach-Tarski! > > > > -- > > Sorry to disagree!, but if we allow Mathematicians' names here, I have > some others that are far greater than Banach and Tarski, take > > F19 Euclid - Greatest Geometer of all time > F19 Archimedes > > take Paul Erdös, Euler, Riemann, Gauss, All would be great here :) > > Sadly, though Spherical you would be correct sir, I also thought about > Lobachevsky, but he apparently did work on HyperBolic Geometries :) > > But to get back at the naming, How about the tribute to Denis Ritchie, was > the next version of Fedora going to be named in his honor, since he was one > of the pioneers of C/C++ and the Unix operating system which is the > prototype of the system that we are using? > > Just like the American Political System, we have no voice and no vote :(, > the "Ruling Elite" are the ones that chose names and vote, us the users are > the ones that have to end up with whatever others choose if we are not part > of the "Ruling Elite" :( Is there an electoral college in the Fedora > voting? Because if there is, the majority does not get to choose the name > :( > > Best Regards, > > > Antonio > > > -- > users mailing list > users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org >
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