30 Dec
2009
30 Dec
'09
6:22 p.m.
On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 07:57:23PM +0000, james morris wrote:
On 30/12/2009, "Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas"
<pedro.lopez.cabanillas(a)gmail.com> wrote:
One of my favorite apps is "Jpilot". Some people got bent out of shape about the
fact that he named it "jpilot" but it's not based on Java. Like, WTF, does
Java have a copyright on the letter J?
Paul gets cranky sometimes; it's part of his charm, along with his dry and sometimes
caustic British humour and sarcasm.
I love Linux project names, in general, because they're goofy, weird, funny, and often
make no sense whatsoever.
I mean, after all, this whole endeavour is descended from a guy who named his project
"GNU".
-ken
I want to add that I have the above links at hand
because I am an active user
of the sites. I use both gtk-apps.org and kde-apps.org when looking for
programs, and my desktop is usually an eclectic mix of free software from
here and there. I've never thought that two letters in a program name were a
so much transcendental matter, and I offer a name change if that helps to
stop the persecution. If the proposed name "Lapidation" is not acceptable,
I'm open to other proposals.
How about the "lobster-cracker"?
see http://www.pd.org/Perforations/perf5/influ.html