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[Sebastian Sauer]

On 11/21/2011 04:36 AM, Thorsten Zachmann wrote:
>
>> It also reveals the names (for those that weren't at the sprint). And yes
>> some were made as a joke, but in all fairness all proposed names were
>> brought to the vote.
>>
>>
>> 1. Abacus  (Condorcet winner: wins contests with all other choices)
> Even if it won the competition it is a bad choice as there is already a
> spreadsheet application out there with this name. See
> http://www.freebsdsoftware.org/deskutils/abacus.html

I agree. The sucks. Also the list of names is so bad that I don't wonder 
it wins. Even more worse now we destroyed the nice idea the brand and 
the app names had :-(

> Also ubuntu ships with xabacus. Therefore I have a strong feeling we should
> not use a name already used by a different open source project.
>
>> 2. Spreads  loses to Abacus by 6–3
>> 3. Tables  loses to Abacus by 8–2, loses to Spreads by 6–3

How exactly was the counting done?

>> 4. Grids  loses to Abacus by 6–2, loses to Tables by 6–4
>> 5. Kiire (estonian for quick)  loses to Abacus by 7–1, loses to Grids by
>> 5–3 6. Blocks  loses to Abacus by 8–0, loses to Kiire (estonian for quick)
>> by 4–3 7. Boxes  loses to Abacus by 8–0, loses to Blocks by 4–1
>> 8. Formula / formulas  loses to Abacus by 7–1, loses to Boxes by 3–2
>> 9. Flats  loses to Abacus by 8–0, loses to Formula / formulas by 4–1
>> 10. Numbers n shit  loses to Abacus by 8–0, loses to Flats by 4–2
>>
>>
>>
>> Now, for those voting it's quite clear that Abacus has a healthy margin.
>>
>> I thus propose that we make the change.

I vote against :-)