From: Joe Wiltrout <wiltroutja@...>
Date: 2007-07-13T11:35:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Religion (was: god 0.1.0 released)

Todd Benson wrote:
> On 7/12/07, Joe Wiltrout <wiltroutja@hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> If someone named a program "God", and people don't like people
>> complaining about the use of the word, what if someone named a program
>> the word Satan? Im sure the first set of people would not like that, and
>> the first people would become the second, and vice-versa.
> 
> For me, it's not about taking offense.  It's about absconding with a
> 'heavy' name for their library.  I'm sure people would not like it
> that much if I came up with a library and named it bluntly 'ftp' or
> 'telnet' or 'ruby' or 'rubyquiz'.
> 
> Todd

I'm sorry if I don't exactly know what these library things are, or ftp 
or telnet. But I don't see why people wouldn't like it. Besides the 
people who made these things and may have copyrighted them. And it would 
confuse people if they searched for said thing and found your 'library' 
instead. But smart people get over it, and smart people don't make other 
smart people have to get over things dumb people do.


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