From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2007-07-13T11:48:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Religion (was: god 0.1.0 released)

On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 11:17:30AM +0900, Joe Wiltrout wrote:
> Trans wrote:
> > 
> > On the topic, I don't see it as a religious thing in-itself, merely a
> > matter of general sensibilities. For instance, I would likewise anyone
> > not to name a project a curse word or racial slur, despite how well
> > they might correspond to the projects functionality. Sure, "God" is
> > not a "bad" word, but it's just as emotionally heavy. In the end, you
> > could use any such name, if you really wanted, but you'd probably be
> > doing yourself a disservice b/c some people simply won't approach your
> > project b/c of it.
> > 
> > T.
> 
> If someone named a program "God", and people don't like people 
> complaining about the use of the word, what if someone named a program 
> the word Satan? Im sure the first set of people would not like that, and 
> the first people would become the second, and vice-versa.

You mean like this?
  http://www.porcupine.org/satan/

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