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Re: App Naming Nazi (was: Re: Gstreamer)
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Pascal J . Bourguignon |
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Re: App Naming Nazi (was: Re: Gstreamer) |
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Mon, 26 Jan 2004 19:30:57 +0100 |
Raffael Herzog writes:
> Then I had this great idea: "If it plays any media streams, why not simply
> call it 'MediaPlayer.app' instead of 'MoviePlayer.app'?" But then again,
> this picture appeared before my minds eye: Me standing in front of an army
> of lawyers, from a far distance I could hear the sound of a hammer being
> slammed on a big desk, Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer grinning at me
> gloatingly, and myself only being capable of one thought: "How the heck am
> I supposed to ever be able to pay those billions of dollars I've just been
> condemned to?" - And all this just because I wanted to call my open source
> media playing application such that the name reflects what the app does:
> Playing media. Nah, that's not it.
>
> Then I finally came back to my senses and stopped thinking about a name
> for something that currently is nothing more than a proof-of-concept and a
> bunch of ideas, so I simply wrote "GPlayer.app" and pressed the send
> button.
I have a handy program that can be used to name applications (and
corporations) while minimizing the risk of a lawsuit:
$ for i in 1 2 3 4 ; do echo `newpassword --no-special`.app ; done
Pgs5nMM8.app
ssnoGnGB.app
EtjIq9wS.app
CRMgW56I.app
Anyway, typical users will only recognize their applications from the
icon, won't they?
And remeber the naming of programs on IBM systems, like IEFBR14, etc.
--
__Pascal_Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/
There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he doesn't
want merely because you think it would be good for him.--Robert Heinlein
http://www.theadvocates.org/
- Re: App Naming Nazi (was: Re: Gstreamer), (continued)
- Re: App Naming Nazi (was: Re: Gstreamer), Alex Perez, 2004/01/20
- Re: App Naming Nazi (was: Re: Gstreamer), Chris B. Vetter, 2004/01/20
- Re: App Naming Nazi (was: Re: Gstreamer), thisguyisi, 2004/01/25
- Re: App Naming Nazi (was: Re: Gstreamer), Pascal J . Bourguignon, 2004/01/25
- Re: App Naming Nazi (was: Re: Gstreamer), Jason Clouse, 2004/01/25
- Re: App Naming Nazi (was: Re: Gstreamer), Robert Warning, 2004/01/25
- Re: App Naming Nazi (was: Re: Gstreamer), thisguyisi, 2004/01/25
- Re: App Naming Nazi (was: Re: Gstreamer), M. Grabert, 2004/01/20
- Re: App Naming Nazi (was: Re: Gstreamer), Gregory John Casamento, 2004/01/21
- Re: App Naming Nazi (was: Re: Gstreamer), Raffael Herzog, 2004/01/26
- Re: App Naming Nazi (was: Re: Gstreamer),
Pascal J . Bourguignon <=
- Re: App Naming Nazi (was: Re: Gstreamer), Alex Perez, 2004/01/26
- Re: App Naming Nazi (was: Re: Gstreamer), Pascal J . Bourguignon, 2004/01/26
- Re: App Naming Nazi (was: Re: Gstreamer), Alex Perez, 2004/01/26
- Re: App Naming Nazi (was: Re: Gstreamer), Christopher Culver, 2004/01/26
- Re: App Naming Nazi (was: Re: Gstreamer), Martin Brecher, 2004/01/26
- Re: App Naming Nazi (was: Re: Gstreamer), PUYDT Julien, 2004/01/27
Re: Gstreamer, Fabien VALLON, 2004/01/20
Re: Gstreamer, Robert Warning, 2004/01/20