The phrasing (as of when I write this comment, still within OP's edit window) can use work, but how's it off-topic? This article is about a name change and nothing but a name change.
But OP is Dutch - nobody, even from the general gay community (not specifically Holland), replied saying it's the first thing they thought of.
OP, you really made it sound like it's something as well-known as the word wanker - whereas it's extremely obscure.
If I'm in charge of the docker project, the gay dutch community is much too obscure for me to change the name because of.
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jacquesm, I read your reply to this comment and we simply disagree. Their phrasing can use work, but the information is clearly 100% on-topic if it's genuinely the first thing they thought of when they heard it, and if they phrased it more neutrally. If a project were called "wanker" would you call it off-topic to discuss the UD definition on an article about its name? in reply to the call for speculation phrased "Why change the name? All the books and posts reference the name Docker."?
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this thread is becoming boring but as for the opposite of sarcasm,the opposite of /s are the three letters "srs", maybe in parentheses.
I'm not Dutch, and it's definitely not just a Dutch thing. And it's the first definition on urbandictionary, so it's not that obscure.
But speaking of which, the Dutch gay community was also quite enamoured with the name of the photo sharing site "Flickr", i.e. https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flikker
How was my phrasing inappropriate? I never said they should change the name -- just the opposite! At least it's not a demeaning insult, like gimp, git or mongo.
Is there an html markup for non-sarcasm I should use, like the opposite of <s>? Or if I just nest two <s> tags do they cancel out?
Pro tip: always check urbandictionary before naming a project.
Off-topic: something that does not have to do anything with the subject at hand, in this case, Docker, the company producing software, software in general and so on as well as rebranding or changing the name of open source companies. What GP's associations with the name are doesn't really matter and as far as I can see did not have any influence because they are keeping the name so that is certainly not why they are changing their open source projects to be moved under a new brand.
Or maybe just because it is off-topic?