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"market" is connected with +</I>>><i> "selling", "app*" is connected with Apple's commercial appstore. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> That a word is used or misused would not justify to abdicate our own +</I>><i> use of it, if it is relevant. Or we are headed for newspeak each time. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> "App" has been used years for software applications before Apple +</I>><i> coined the "AppStore" name. And their application platform has +</I>><i> fundamentally nothing new, but that it does build a hugely profitable +</I>><i> ecosystem, for now at least. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> A "market" is a place where people meet and exchange stuff. From this +</I>><i> have grown many different things of different sizes and implications. +</I>><i> And sometimes, there is sales and purchases there, because that's how +</I>><i> it takes place. And nothing here opposes collaboration: it just takes +</I>><i> place in a certain way, provided both parties are happy with the +</I>><i> transaction that took place. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> "Market" may indeed not be the best word in this very case, but this +</I>><i> reflexion hints something interesting: that you oppose the possibility +</I>><i> to have paid-for stuff witin mageia-app-db. Why not. Is it so really? +</I>><i> Is it assumed? +</I>><i> +</I>><i> For such generic terms (app, market), it's more what you do with it +</I>><i> with time that matters and prints some identity, than the name only +</I>><i> (the records of inane names back then that now bear some very serious +</I>><i> meaning are countless). +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Notwithstanding that one may rename it anyway later. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Back then (2006), we coined "Kiosk" for what could have been Mdv +</I>><i> application store at the time. The name matches, through several +</I>><i> acceptions, the public passing-by/meeting place, the public +</I>><i> distribution place (of newspapers) and integration in the daily life; +</I>><i> the "library" and "social" aspects that are in the project's +</I>><i> description (<A HREF="http://mageia-app-db.tuxette.fr/projects/1/wiki">http://mageia-app-db.tuxette.fr/projects/1/wiki</A> ). +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Or Forknamad, for Formerly-Known-As-Mageia-App-Db application. :) +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Cheers, +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Romain +</I> +You have the habit of making us think. +I especially like your suggestion :) + +Personnally, I think that app- (or appli-) would be good as part of the +name, since it is what the project is all about. + +-- +André +</PRE> + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="003567.html">[Mageia-discuss] Contributing Howto : need help +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="003568.html">[Mageia-discuss] A name for mageia-app-db (round 2) +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#3566">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#3566">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#3566">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#3566">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">More information about the Mageia-discuss +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |