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koolba
on Aug 2, 2020
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GITenberg is an open source community for publishi...
They’re probably going to have to change their name to something that does not have “git” in it:
https://public-inbox.org/git/20170202022655.2jwvudhvo4hmueaw...
sethish
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Gitenberg was one of the alternate spellings of Gutenberg in the 1400s.
agumonkey
on Aug 2, 2020
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I propose Gytenberg
artiszt
on Aug 2, 2020
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or, widely accepted standard [in german and slavic-languages] way back then, 'v' instead of 'u', and vice versa
agumonkey
on Aug 2, 2020
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ah well for some reason the visual asthetics of gytenberg vs gvtenberg made me chose the former (even though at first I typed gvtenberg)
bhickey
on Aug 2, 2020
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> It's hard to hold them responsible for picking a name that violated a policy that didn't yet exist.
fwiw, Gitenberg has been around at least since 2012.
metiscus
on Aug 2, 2020
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They've been named like that for six years apparently so I'm not sure how that works for what you linked above. It is a valid point that hopefully doesn't cause problems.
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