From: Mike '/m' 

On Sun, 1 Dec 2002 13:09:56 -0500, "Geo."  wrote:

>"Mike '/m'"  wrote in message
>news:0j5kuu8gn1u094nm70c4hl1spk87ndnpc3{at}4ax.com...
>
>> On the other hand, how much does the name really matter?  What does
>> the word "Quicken" (a successful program) have to do with home
>> finance?  What does Outlook Distress have to do with email and news
>> reading?
>
>I'm not saying that there aren't programs named by idiots on the PC, but
>things like "network monitor" or "pagemaker" or
"photoshop" or "control
>panel" or "advanced admin tools" are pretty clearly named.
>
>The world today is a bunch of windows users, if you want to attract them to
>Linux then it's important to make them feel comfortable with it. One of the
>things we (me, antti, etc.) find uncomfortable about KDE and Gnome is that
>the names are like something out of an alien movie. And I think everyone
>here knows that's a really simple thing to fix even if you just use symlinks
>with better names.

As I mentioned, I wasn't arguing with ya, just agreeing in a Canopian way.

 /m

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