Re: What *should* the B in BSD stand for?

obvious troll is obviously trying to up his internet credentials

On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 06:06:18AM -0500, Alex Libman wrote:
> All,
> 
> Does anyone else ever wish the B in BSD stood for something else?
> 
> The individuals at Berkeley should obviously get all of the credit they
> deserve in a proper readme file, but do we really want to keep that name
> for all eternity?
> 
> Countless rivers flow into the ocean that is OpenBSD, and only a small
> and shrinking fraction of them had anything to do with that one silly
> university near San Fransisco, which was once infamous for its military
> R&D, and then for the political insanity taking place on its campus...
> But even if you like Berkeley, wouldn't it be nice to recognize how far
> OpenBSD and other BSD's have come in the decades since, with hundreds of
> contributors from all over the world?
> 
> If you want to stick with the theme of ancient history, we could as well
> reference Bell (Labs), or even (Charles) Babbage, but why?  Many other
> words begin with the letter B!  Beautiful, better, best, brainy, beer,
> bologna, bacon, breasts...  Wait, what was I talking about?  Oh, someone
> inevitably will say "backdoor", which isn't funny, so I'll defuse that
> idea right off the bat.  Hmmm, "bat"..."man"?  Batman!  If you had a
> batcave full of computers that all sorts of jokers were trying to hack
> into, what else would you run!
> 
> Or...  It could just be one of them self-referential acronyms that some
> guy at MIT thinks are funny...  (B)SD (S)oftware (D)istribution....
> Works for me!  (Except with 802.11n, but that's a whole nother rant.)
> 
> 
> REMOVED FOR THE GOOGLE