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[C. Boemann]

On Monday 21 November 2011 14:58:18 you wrote:
> On 11/21/2011 02:03 PM, C. Boemann wrote:
> > On Monday 21 November 2011 13:50:38 Pierre Stirnweiss wrote:
> >>>> 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
> >>> 
> >>> If there is already a spreadsheet application with this name, then this
> >>> is
> >> 
> >> an absolute no-go for me. How would we feel if some other project was
> >> developping an application suite with:
> >> YetAnotherApplicationSuite Words: text processor
> >> YAAS Stage: presentation
> >> YAAS Kexi: DB
> >> YAAS Krita: painting
> >> ....
> >> 
> >> Don't do others what you wouldn't want to be done to you.
> >> 
> >> My 2 cts,
> >> 
> >> PierreSt
> > 
> > except that that other Abacus has been dead for 14 years or so
> 
> 1) It's in the openSuse and Ubuntu repos.
> 2) The last change in the changelog at
> http://pkgs.org/opensuse-11.4/opensuse-contrib-i586/xabacus-7.4.1-1.2.i586.
> rpm.html is from 2008 what makes it 3 years old and not 14.
> 3) The last change in the changelog at
> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xabacus/+changelog is from 2011
> what means it's still activly developed.
> 
> In any case I think that are exactly the reasons why we should have a
> discussion at the mailinglist before.
Take a closer look at the changelog at:
http://www.freebsdsoftware.org/deskutils/abacus.html

It's quite clear it has only been updated to make it compile - no active 
development.