From: Austin Ziegler <austin@...>
Date: 2003-12-17T05:46:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie questions

On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 04:41:42 +0900, Daniel Carrera wrote:
> Now, why do we have to pick a creative name?  Why don't we pick a boring
> uncreative name that is easy to remember, like "rubydoc".
> 
> One beef I have with many OSS products is that they like choosing
> creative but uninformative names like "Evolution", or "Gimp".

GIMP isn't "uninformative." It's the GNU Image Manipulation Program.

-austin
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