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I wish the Linux Foundation would be more progressive with naming the project. One of the member orgs, Skyward, has already switched away from the word 'drone' to a much more descriptive 'aerial robotics'.

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I think that ship has sailed. "Drone" is a single, simple word that the public is using to describe flying robots. Trying to convince everyone to not use it will be a Sisyphean task.

I'd still like "hacker" back, but that ain't gonna happen.

I think the distinction he/she's looking for is that these particular drones aren't flying murderous robots, just like all hackers aren't trying to steal grandma's social security number.

As far as I can tell, there is no single (archaic or otherwise) word that means "worker bee". So I guess we're stuck with "drone", being the closets thing to "flying worker", even if drones actually only exist for sex. So unlike robots, they are not actually workers -- but (bee) drones do fly.

Either way, "aerial robotics" is hopelessly long. "Flybots" might work.

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