On Tue, 2012-08-07 at 13:34 +0200, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
giving a name to the particular release of a distro has a
social/emotional character, like giving a name to a newborn child. It
is only natural that developers are emotionally attached to their
latest "creation", and want to give it a name, a form of personal
touch.
Likewise for the naming of other things, such as naming computers on the
network. I would put a bit of thought into mine, rather than just
calling it "server." Windows machines tended to be given hateful names
from mythology. ;-) e.g. We called a mail server Pandora, after
Pandora's Box, where all the evil in the world supposedly came from. It
seemed appropriate at the time, and still does. And I sent one PC back
to its owner, who was forever killing it, named Lazarus.
As for criticizing the idea, they should first think if they
would be willing to name their newborn son as
"Child-25/07/2012-male",
I am not a number... ;-)
(That'll probably go right over the heads of many list members.)
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