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I am deeply sceptical of any technology where the builders think up the name first and then try to find a reason it should be called that. It just seems too much like stuff I did when I was 12.

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My impression is that this part of the email sounds like some business/sales guy that has a great idea where the technical parts are 'easy' and can be 'implemented by monkeys.'

"I have a great idea, let's make a product that can make us a lot of money. We'll work out the details later, that's the easy part."

This characterizes his entire attitude better than anything I've seen so far: "too much like stuff I did when I was 12". That, and some of my early Web customers in the 90's. I cringe just to read this stuff.

How do you feel about GNU?

GNU is not a technology, it's a movement. And to get all Marxist up on this joint, the building blocks for a new movement is created long before the leader is conscious of the need for one; the status-quo automatically provides an anti- checklist to motivate mobilization. One only has to scream "down with the government!" in a poor neighborhood to prove this; no further deliberation is needed, as the audience comes equipped with its own reasons to revolt.

Sounds more like the Hegelian dialectic than Marxist.

And you would be absolutely right! Marx was a Young Hegelian and applied it political thinking and his theories of society.

or people who register a domain name first

and then do nothing with it

where the builders think up the name first and then try to find a reason it should be called that

How about federal legislation?

It doesn't say they came up with the name first.

"I would like to call it "B.E.S.T. Scanner" so people kind of get stuck calling it "the best scanner". We can figure out what BEST means later."

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