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Re: About the draft announcement/name change

  Bruce> Also, remember that my job is to present you with ideas, get you
  Bruce> talking, derive a consensus, and then solidify that into a
  Bruce> decision. This is not the last radical idea you'll hear from
  Bruce> me.

As you wanted to hear from us, here are my two cents:

 * The BASE idea drives me up the wall. It implies that some extras are
   missing (base vs deluxe), it implies that we thing others can't do their
   job (ok, that has been toned down), it is capitalized, it is pretensious. 
   I just don't like it. 

 * Debian Linux is what I like. We are already known, to some extent, as
   Debian. Lots of people have heard about us, albeit only mouth-to-ear or
   rumourwise. We have to fill this void *now*. If we rename ourselves, we 
   only create another void. So please: let's drop this debase et al stuff.

Our product is great. We do good work. We are free. We are an open system. 
Let's keep it that way and let's not get stuck in silly pseudo-politics.

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Dirk Eddelb"uttel                              http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/~edd