On Sun, 2010-04-18 at 11:40 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 04/16/2010 07:05 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > > On Fri, 16 Apr 2010 08:25:27 -0500 > > Aaron Konstam wrote: > > > > > >> Why would anyone change the name of gnome-key-manager (a name with some > >> meaning) to seahorse (seemingly meaningless)? > >> > > I think this falls under my theory: > > > > http://home.comcast.net/~tomhorsley/wisdom/braindump/darwin.html > > > > I assume this is written in a tongue in cheek manner but this is a a > rather common misconception. Seahorse has replaced gnome-keyring-manager > and it is not a simple rename but a different project and done by a team > of volunteers. Let's look at the business rationale: First of all, not > every company relies on the support and services model. There is a wide > variety of business models built around free and open source software. > The second misunderstanding is what support and services actually > mean. Red Hat, for example does assist customers to setup the > environment to meet particular needs but that hardly covers everything. > Support also involves developing new features or in many cases, > development entirely new projects to meet customer needs and also > elevation of bug fixes. Red Hat has a fairly large content services > team which is responsible for pretty good documentation in > http://redhat.com and some of the documentation in > http://docs.fedoraproject.org not to mention http://kbase.redhat.com > and content for the Red Hat certification courses. > > > Rahul As I sometimes am, I am confused by what you say Rahul. The question is not whether Red Hat has a right to replace programs by new ones created by another different team of volunteers. They do. My question is why call the new project seahorse a name which would be hard to associate with what the program does. Is there some reason that the new program could not keep the same name or at least a more meaningful name? -- ======================================================================= "It doesn't much signify whom one marries for one is sure to find out next morning it was someone else." -- Rogers ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
