Re: ANNOUNCE: GDM 2.2.4.2, the "Horny Squirrel" release

[Trevor Curtis <tcurtis somaradio ca>]

Sometime around Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 03:17:26PM -0400, Adam Williams spoke forth and said:
> >>>What does "Horny Squirrel" have with the focus of this release?  Absolutely
> >>>nothing!  What does it have to do with GDM?  Absolutely nothing!  Why
> >>>did I pick it?  Hell if I knew.
> >>One of the things I love best about free software... we can just relax
> >>and be ourselves and call software releases "Horny Squirrel."  None of
> >>that corporate, "proper WASP attitude" crap.  ^,^
> >So one could say that you like free software because it involves sexually
> >excited rodents?  (I don't know about you, but that's the reason I am in free
> >software:)
> 
> I thought he was reffering to a genetic splice of a squirrell and a horned
> toad.   I love free software because it's developers think out-of-the-box.
> I mean,  who would have imagined a squirrell that can get nuts out of a
> tree using it's 3 meter long sticky tongue!

I don't know if I fancy where this thread is going! ;)

Besides, I doubt that anyone will forget a name like that. Good call. 

later,
-- 
Trevor Curtis
http://www.somaradio.ca/~tcurtis
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