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Re: Renaming the Debian Project

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"Being that the current year is almost 2016 and is 20 years after Debian
started"

Yes, let's rename a project because of an arbitrary date. That makes
perfect sense. No it doesn't, that is absurd.

"because having the project named after a white supremacist"

Those are some pretty serious accusations you are making. You have any
proof to back up those claims? Further, your tactics of shaming someone
based on their beliefs, while potentially gross beliefs, is still pretty
insulting and petty.

I wish the name to stay as-is. If people want to create a project with a
different name they are welcome to fork, at the core that is the essence of
Debian and its licenses.

On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 2:03 PM, benjamin barber <starworks5@gmail.com>
wrote:

> It's unfortunate that Debian is named after Debra and Ian, because having
> the project named after a white supremacist, who used his ex-wifes name as
> an trophy. Being that the current year is almost 2016 and is 20 years after
> Debian started, we should look to the future and not the past. We shouldn't
> tolerate the project being named after a person who uses the N word, or
> marginalizes women who've been sexually assaulted. Instead I think we ought
> to rename the project "Euphemia", which means "good speech" and represents
> our code of conduct, as well as being the name of Euphemia Lofton Haynes
> the first African American woman who earned a math PHD.
>

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Renaming the Debian Project benjamin barber <starworks5@gmail.com> - 2015-12-30 23:10 +0100
  Re: Renaming the Debian Project Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au> - 2015-12-30 23:20 +0100
  Re: Renaming the Debian Project Daniel Pocock <daniel@pocock.pro> - 2015-12-30 23:20 +0100
  Re: Renaming the Debian Project Dimitri John Ledkov <dimitri.ledkov@surgut.co.uk> - 2015-12-30 23:50 +0100
    Re: Renaming the Debian Project Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au> - 2015-12-31 00:10 +0100
    Re: Renaming the Debian Project Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2015-12-31 00:30 +0100
  Re: Renaming the Debian Project "Fuller, Lee" <lee.fuller@leesys.co.uk> - 2015-12-31 00:00 +0100
  Re: Renaming the Debian Project larocca@larocca.io - 2015-12-31 01:10 +0100
  Re: Renaming the Debian Project Wouter Verhelst <wouter@debian.org> - 2015-12-31 02:10 +0100
  Re: Renaming the Debian Project Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> - 2015-12-31 05:00 +0100
    Re: Renaming the Debian Project Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au> - 2015-12-31 05:20 +0100
    Re: Renaming the Debian Project Daniel Pocock <daniel@pocock.pro> - 2015-12-31 08:50 +0100
  Re: Renaming the Debian Project Jeff Garra <jgarra@aglilly.com> - 2015-12-31 05:10 +0100
    RE: Renaming the Debian Project Manuel <manchax@gmail.com> - 2015-12-31 05:40 +0100
  Re: Renaming the Debian Project keito <audioactivist@gmail.com> - 2015-12-31 13:40 +0100
  Re: Renaming the Debian Project Ehud Gavron <gavron@wetwork.net> - 2016-01-01 07:30 +0100
  Re: Renaming the Debian Project gaffa <gaffa@confuseacat.dk> - 2016-01-02 19:40 +0100

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