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   Carl (carl@chaos.social)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Apr-2023 17:37:55 JST Carl

   @researchfairy Genuine question: Why does the Debian-derived distro need to change its name?

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Apr-2023 17:37:53 JST clacke

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     @carl @researchfairy It's presumptious for an English-speaking South African who is not in community with Xhosa or Zulu speakers to take the word and slap it on his product, however fitting the name may seem.
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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Apr-2023 17:38:22 JST clacke

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     @carl @researchfairy Obviously.
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     Carl (carl@chaos.social)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Apr-2023 17:38:23 JST Carl

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     • clacke

     @clacke Waitaminute... I suppose you are not part of a Xhosa or Zulu speaking community yourself. So you can speak your mind on that, but your opinion is not as authoritative as one of a community member. @researchfairy

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Apr-2023 19:46:38 JST clacke

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     @carl @researchfairy I'm merely saying Mark Shuttleworth doesn't speak for them and decided to use the name anyway.

     Maybe they think it's an awesome name for Canonical's distro, we just don't know.

     That's my explanation for why someone might want Canonical to change the name until we know. I'm not appointing myself the anything of anything.

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     Carl (carl@chaos.social)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Apr-2023 19:46:39 JST Carl

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     • clacke

     @clacke What makes you think then you'd be entitled to speak for said communities? @researchfairy