[Mageia-discuss] New name for cooker

Tue Sep 21 18:22:09 CEST 2010

'Twas brillig, and John Keller at 21/09/10 16:51 did gyre and gimble:
+> On 09/21/2010 05:43 PM, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
+>> 2010/9/21 John Keller <mageia at johnkeller.com>:
+>>>
+>>> I agree, "brewery" or "brew" is a nice one!
+>>>
+>>  Now may I show the "too complicated for different languages and
+>> cultures" card? It may even be offending for religious people whose
+>> religion forbids alcohol.
+> 
+> Good point, I hadn't thought of that. Well, still nice if you like beer.
+> 
+> On the other hand (ah ha!), "brew" doesn't have to be alcohol-related,
+> since it can refer to a cooking process or a witch's brew. (Back to
+> cauldron...) Or, "what's brewing?"
+
+Yes indeed. The alcohol link is purely optional. It very much applies to
+other things, such as a nice cup of tea. In fact a common question to
+someone asking if they want a cup of tea is "Fancy a brew?". All
+innocent and nice and child friendly! :)
+
+> Also, I've already seen one comment on DistroWatch from an Islamic user
+> saying that he wasn't going to be able to use Mageia because of the
+> Quran's views on magic. I'm not sure if he was serious or not, but
+> certainly someone would be about that. I'm not suggesting we dig the
+> hole any deeper, but at least if there's going to be a deal-breaker with
+> strictly religious users, it probably won't be the name of the dev branch.
+
+I think that is probably an overreaction! Some religions would probably
+consider anything that runs via electricity to be magic. As with
+anything it's all about interpretation. If you take things too
+literally, you could find a reason to avoid just about everything.
+
+While I think we obviously need to be respectful, we shouldn't concern
+ourselves with every possible interpretation.
+
+Col
+
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