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This thing needs a better name. I can see the technology benefit, but commercially it needs a more technologically correct (P.C.) name. If this is sold, the pu

This thing needs a better name. I can see the technology benefit, but commercially it needs a more technologically correct (P.C.) name. If this is sold, the publicity people will have heart attacks and the legal documents will come up on porn searches. Not the best business strategy to peruse if the developers want to maximize the value of this asset.

dkarl 17y ago
What kind of product do you envision that would be named after, or whose marketing material would even mention by name, a process scheduler?
- ars 17y ago
  Business Purchase Order for RedHat licenses with BFS scheduler for the developers. Just don't say what BFS stands for. OK, it's a bit of a stretch that they'll say what the scheduler is on the PO, but it could happen. It needs a backronym. Bloody Fine Scheduler? Bazinga Fast Scheduler? BigBang Feory Scheduler? :)
  - trafficlight 17y ago
    Traditionally, BFx stands for "Big Fucking x". For example the BFG 9000 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BFG_9000 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BFG_9000
- Scott_MacGregor 17y ago
  Not necessarily marketing material, but a lot of big companies like to issue press releases when they add something or buy something. Plus, if it is picked up and used by any big name in the industry some of the blogs will probably pick it up and make a mockery out the name using their so-called clever writing skills, lol. From a business standpoint, this might be a concern for some companies. I can’t see any "positive business reason" to have a name like that, it only seems like a negative to me.
jsrn 17y ago
perhaps you are right (although I don't quite understand what "publicity people" will have to do with a kernel scheduler), but the Unix world seems to have done not too badly with non-PC expressions such as "killing" or "starving" a process. The kill system call even made it into "serious" standard documents: http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/kill.html http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/kil...
- Nwallins 17y ago
  Ah, but don't forget LA County's outrage at Master/Slave designations. http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/outrage/master.asp http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/outrage/master.asp
- Scott_MacGregor 17y ago
  If it is picked up and used by any big name in the industry, some of the blogs will probably pick it up and make a mockery out the name. From a business standpoint, this might be a concern for some companies.
zokier 17y ago
There is the beauty of BFS. It's not meant to be sold, nor it's not meant to be in mainline. It's just Cons scheduler. He wrote it because he had to upgrade his kernel and wasn't happy with its scheduler. So he wrote a new one. This is the very essence of Linux imho. From hackers to hackers without extraneous corporate bullshit like PC-speak etc.

dkarl 17y ago

What kind of product do you envision that would be named after, or whose marketing material would even mention by name, a process scheduler?

ars 17y ago
Business Purchase Order for RedHat licenses with BFS scheduler for the developers. Just don't say what BFS stands for. OK, it's a bit of a stretch that they'll say what the scheduler is on the PO, but it could happen. It needs a backronym. Bloody Fine Scheduler? Bazinga Fast Scheduler? BigBang Feory Scheduler? :)
- trafficlight 17y ago
  Traditionally, BFx stands for "Big Fucking x". For example the BFG 9000 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BFG_9000 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BFG_9000
Scott_MacGregor 17y ago
Not necessarily marketing material, but a lot of big companies like to issue press releases when they add something or buy something. Plus, if it is picked up and used by any big name in the industry some of the blogs will probably pick it up and make a mockery out the name using their so-called clever writing skills, lol. From a business standpoint, this might be a concern for some companies. I can’t see any "positive business reason" to have a name like that, it only seems like a negative to me.

jsrn 17y ago

perhaps you are right (although I don't quite understand what "publicity people" will have to do with a kernel scheduler), but the Unix world seems to have done not too badly with non-PC expressions such as "killing" or "starving" a process. The kill system call even made it into "serious" standard documents: http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/kill.html http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/kil...

Nwallins 17y ago
Ah, but don't forget LA County's outrage at Master/Slave designations. http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/outrage/master.asp http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/outrage/master.asp
Scott_MacGregor 17y ago
If it is picked up and used by any big name in the industry, some of the blogs will probably pick it up and make a mockery out the name. From a business standpoint, this might be a concern for some companies.

zokier 17y ago

There is the beauty of BFS. It's not meant to be sold, nor it's not meant to be in mainline. It's just Cons scheduler. He wrote it because he had to upgrade his kernel and wasn't happy with its scheduler. So he wrote a new one. This is the very essence of Linux imho. From hackers to hackers without extraneous corporate bullshit like PC-speak etc.