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Re: Suggestion to change the name "Subversion"

From: Branko ÄŒibej <brane_at_wandisco.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 10:54:49 +0200

On 13.08.2013 02:03, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> No one else remember the old "Satan" monitoring toolkit, that had an option to change the displayed name and icon to "Santa"?
>
> The name "Subversion" has enough positive reputation that changing it, just to avoid NSA style monitoring, seems very destabilizing to a popular project. Let's not change it.

I'm all for filling up NSA's databases with subversive connotations.
Helps finance open source (Hadoop, don't y'know). :)

-- Brane 

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Branko ÄŒibej | Director of Subversion
WANdisco // Non-Stop Data
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Received on 2013-08-15 10:55:41 CEST

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