<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 1:02 PM, Loïc Hoguin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:essen@ninenines.eu" target="_blank">essen@ninenines.eu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 02/12/2018 05:13 PM, Fred Hebert wrote:> Loic can correct me if he's wrong, but his /Cowboy/ web server took its<br>
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initial name because /cowboys kill apaches/ if I recall old conference conversations. I think it's of poor taste, but so far Loic has not had any fall out or enough offended people to make any change, and he did build a successful business out of it. He made the call and ran with it.<br>
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Oversimplified of course but true. Context is important though, my knowledge of cowboys mostly comes from Lucky Luke and a few farwest movies, so the inspiration is fictional.<br>
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Nobody has had any problem with it.</blockquote><div><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">Actually, plenty of us have had a problem with it for a long time Loic. Those of us who knew the origin. The term cowboy absent your naming context is of course innocuous, which might explain why it's coasted under the radar for so long without having been called out; in context, it is disappointing.</span><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="im HOEnZb"><br>
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Loïc Hoguin<br>
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