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Scrotwm is an open source Linux window manager. I'm struggling to think of too many other examples - "Back Orifice" was a script kiddie tool from about a decad
by rjknight 14y ago
Scrotwm is an open source Linux window manager.
I'm struggling to think of too many other examples - "Back Orifice" was a script kiddie tool from about a decade ago, I guess that was a "provocative" name (iirc, it had a plugin system called "buttplugs", but I may have imagined that).
Question to the people who are objecting to the name: would you object to a punk band that called itself "Tampon"? Would you say things like "this will really harm adoption of your product"? If not, what do you consider to be the relevant distinction between open source software and punk music?
- MartinCron 14y agoTampon is a great name for a punk band. There's an all-mom punk band here in Seattle called "the Kegels" and people love them. I usually say that people should be as edgy and experimental as they want on their own time. A serious product or workplace should have a different standard of decorum.
- doktrin 14y ago>> Question to the people who are objecting to the name: would you object to a punk band that called itself "Tampon"? Would you say things like "this will really harm adoption of your product"? If not, what do you consider to be the relevant distinction between open source software and punk music? By punk standards, 'Tampon' would be a relatively boring and unimaginative name. However, aren't we comparing apples to oranges? I used to play in a punk band, during which time I sported a very respectable mohawk. I also wore tweed jackets from the salvation army, moshed and drank aggressively and cursed profusely. As great fun as that was, I wouldn't do either of these things in a place-that-I-code. Not in a co-working space, not at a coffee shop, and certainly not in my place of employment.