[NTLUG:Discuss] Fair Rename

[Gilbert Morrow]

North Texas Kernel Festival

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On Apr 30, 2011 1:04 PM, "Robert Pearson" <e2eiod at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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