Am Montag, 1. April 2019, 10:08:03 CEST schrieb Simon Lees:
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.
I say we strip unnecessary stuff like LibreOffice and YaST from the default desktop patterns (making spreadsheets or changing system settings is rather boring and not really "a lot of fun") and install all games by default instead. regards