[NTLUG:Discuss] Fair Rename

[Robert Pearson]

On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 2:56 AM, Gilbert Morrow <gkfmorrow at gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't know, hitchhiker sounds like a bum, loafer, really want Linux
> associated with that ? I mean a guy with another head coming off his
> shoulder . Yes I watched PBS .
>

Good point.
It never even crossed my mind. In my youth I hitchhiked to and from
college, and other places, as did a lot of other people because of "no
money".
Not today - too many weirdos - so your point is well taken.
I think of "Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy" as a giant spaceship
hurtling through space on a mission.
Today I am a Linux hitchhiker to galaxy Freeware/OSS/DIY because I
can't afford anything else. Linux/Freeware/OSS is the spaceship/galaxy
I'm counting on.

Interesting play on the meaning of words over time.
An "Open Economy" (Linux/OpenSystems?) is the "cowboy economy" and the
"Closed Economy" (ClosedSystems?) is the "spaceman economy"?
[Spaceship Earth (1966) - Kenneth Boulding]
For the sake of picturesqueness, I am tempted to call the open economy
the "cowboy economy," the cowboy being symbolic of the illimitable
plains and also associated with reckless, exploitative, romantic, and
violent behavior, which is characteristic of open societies. The
closed economy of the future might similarly be called the "spaceman"
economy, in which the earth has become a single spaceship, without
unlimited reservoirs of anything, either for extraction or for
pollution, and in which, therefore, many must find his place in a
cyclical ecological system which is capable of continuous reproduction
of material form even though it cannot escape having inputs of energy.
(The Economics of the Coming Spaceship Earth 1966)


> Sent from the original Droid.
> On Apr 30, 2011 2:19 AM, "Leroy Tennison" <leroy_tennison at prodigy.net>
> wrote:
>> On 04/29/2011 09:28 PM, Robert Pearson wrote:
>>> On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 10:01 PM, Mike Hart<just_mike_y at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>> Other things to brainstorm in besides the word "LINUX" all of which are
> much less specific to the kernel:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> GNU
>>>> FSF (Free Software Foundation)
>>>> Tux (the penguin)
>>>> CopyLeft -- the backward (C)
>>>>
>>>> I like something like "NTPCUG Presents the DFW Planet GNU Free Software
> Conference", with a picture of Tux sitting on a copyleft sphere, and
> including something similar to but NOT the miniscule window in the lower
> left, and something like the fruit Eve ate in the lower right... portraying
> that they are sort of about to get rolled over.
>>>>
>>>> "Planet GNU" is a website tho, ( http://planet.gnu.org/ ) so before
> using the exact name I suggest, we'd need to clear it with those guys. For
> 'freedom' folks, I've seen some very silly stuff happen when names overlap a
> little.
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>>> Brainstorming, brainstorming, brainstorming...
>>> Maybe---
>>> "Hitchhiker's Guide to Freeware"
>>> "Hitchhiker's Freeware Fest"
>>> "Hitchhiker's Freeware Happening"
>>> "DIY Hitchhiker Freeware"
>>>
>>> There is a theme here somewhere in al these email suggestions. We just
>>> need to find it...
>>>
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>>
>> "Hitchhiker's Guide to Freeware" - I like it, it is catchy and
> communicates what I believe we want to without any of the negatives
> (conference, symposium, rally, etc. as mentioned earlier).
>>
>> "Hitchhiker's Guide to Freeware"
>>
>> "Hitchhiker's Guide to Freeware"
>>
>>
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