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Marc Wilson msw at cox.net
Sun Jan 31 00:41:33 UTC 2010


On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com> wrote:

> That and putting in some hacked fork of cdrecord, I think it's called woeful,
> instead of the real thing.

No, that's a licensing problem.  CDRecord's license is incompatible
with the GPL.

> In general things should appear under their real name
> for purposes of knowing where the bugs are and what you're really using.

No, in general the belief is that it's better for an application to
appear as what it *does*, rather than what it *is*, so that stupid
people are empowered.  People to whom it matters should know how to
change it anyway.

Not that I care about evince at all... that's what Adobe Reader is for.

-- 
Marc Wilson
msw at cox.net


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