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[Pierre Stirnweiss]

Well, if he has updated it to make it compile, it is still in a maintained
state. It shows the developer(s) is(are) still interrested at providing
their software. The very least we have to (and a strong emphasise on the
"have to") is to speak with him(them) before even pushing much further the
possibility of reusing the name.

PierreSt

On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 3:05 PM, C. Boemann <cbo at boemann.dk> wrote:

> 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.
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