Re: Name for encumbered Linuxes?

["Martha Adams" <mhada@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

"spinner" <invalid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
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> On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 15:04:27 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
> > ____/ Bob Tennent on Wednesday 09 January 2008 13:17 : \____
> >
> > > On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 13:06:57 GMT, 7 wrote:
> > >  > Just a thought.
> > >  > There ought to be a generic name for encumbered Linuxes like 
> > > Novel's
> > >  > linux, linspire, turbolinux, xandross and anyone else thinking of
> > >  > doing what those guys have done by selling out to patent troll
> > >  > inclined companies.
> > That is a brilliant idea. It would make a consistent terminology.
> >
> > >  > What about
> > >  >
> > >  >  Cucumber Linux
> > >  >  Cucumbered Linux  (just two letters changed from encumbered 
> > > Linux)
> > >  >  Cucumbered Linux :-)
> > >
> > > How about Tainted Linux?
> Shouldn't that be, "Tainted GNU/Linux"? :)
>
> > I tried this before, but people take offence in that. When words like
> > 'infected' or 'tainted' are used, I've faced comparisons to Nazi
> > propaganda from a pro-Novell zealot (others attacked him for 
> > suggesting
> > this).
> If it pisses 'em off that much then it's perfect!
"Tainted" seems a good middle-of-the-road choice; and it
includes the possibility that like a bad apple in a barrel of
apples, it can spread.

Cheers -- Martha Adams   [cola 2008 Jan 9]