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Re: What to call Guix


From: Richard Stallman
Subject: Re: What to call Guix
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 18:29:22 -0500

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  > > but we should not abbreviate it as GSD; that would lead to various
  > > kinds of confusion.

  > What confusion do you have in mind?  I think we won’t be able to prevent
  > people from internalizing the abbreviation.

1. People might think the "G" stood for GNU.

2. People might think it is a dig at BSD.

Thus, we should not use the abbreviation GSD.  If we want an abbreviation,
let's use GuixSD.

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