On 01/04/2019 18:28, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
On Monday 2019-04-01 02:33, Simon Lees wrote:
Some time long ago back in the dark ages we allowed one of the greatest travesties of all time take place where buy the chromium name was stolen away from a humble arcade shooter with space ships and lasers then given to a big ugly memory sucking corporate browser. https://sourceforge.net/projects/chromium-bsu/
As much as I am with you on the corporate travesty part, I find it hard to support agreement for the CBSU move.
* It is the year 2000. Internet was still on the rise. Funpics still outweighed memes. Sourceforge still had a mandatory project review.
Someone registers "Chromium", http://sf.net/projects/chromium/ , in December 2000 as: """Chromium is a flexible framework for scalable real-time rendering on clusters of workstations, derived from the Stanford WireGL project code base."""
* chromium-bsu only made it onto Sourceforge on 21 January 2001, at which point the "UNIX project name" debate was practically over, even if CBSU existed before 2000.
* The web.archive.org search engine crawled the then-homepage of Chromium BSU on January 24 2001, and the page presents the project as "Chromium B.S.U.". This indicates to me that the project had, rather quickly (within a month), accepted its name collision fate.
On the other hand we at openSUSE expect people to "Have a lot of fun" and clearly renaming chromium-bsu to chromium will cause people to have a lot of fun the first time they run chromium after the update. -- Simon Lees (Simotek) http://simotek.net Emergency Update Team keybase.io/simotek SUSE Linux Adelaide Australia, UTC+10:30 GPG Fingerprint: 5B87 DB9D 88DC F606 E489 CEC5 0922 C246 02F0 014B -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org