Re: [BLUG] Compiz Fusion

On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 05:29:54PM GMT, Joe Auty [joe@netmusician.org] said the following:
>
> This is cool with me, I'm more of an engineer so this is no slight, but
> all of these forks, name changes, etc. must be a marketing nightmare.
> Could you imagine trying to push a product on the masses in this fashion?
>

Forks are one thing. They happen when development teams split up.
Name changes are another. At least when the project is popular, name
changes are usually because of trademark reasons. Its a major annoyance
in the open source world, but I guess its something we'll have to deal
with. Some that come to mind that happened because of this are:

x11amp -> XMMS
Sawmill -> Sawfish
Ethereal -> Wireshark
Gaim -> Pidgin

Cups is one that is coming up, but that will probably be more of a
fork because people won't want Apple in control. Cups, forks, spoons.
I want my tea.

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Mark Krenz
Bloomington Linux Users Group
http://www.bloomingtonlinux.org/
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