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<B>Dale Huckeby</B>
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<I>Sun Feb 13 02:03:47 CET 2011</I>
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<PRE>On Sat, 12 Feb 2011, Michael Scherer wrote:
><i> On Sat, 12 Feb 2011 00:00:09 +0100, Rémi Verschelde wrote:
</I>>><i> 2011/2/11 George J. Walsh <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">gjwalsh at dscvcp.org</A>>:
</I>>>><i> Or maybe, with tongue in cheek, PackRack?
</I>>>><i>
</I>>>><i> I get a little weary of the app thing (too much of the Apple core in
</I>>>><i> there!) A package is a pack and a rack is where one stores one's packs.
</I>>>><i>
</I>>>><i> George
</I>>>><i>
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</I>>><i> I'm not too fond of the App-Whatever either, sounds too Apple-ish to me.
</I>>><i> I don't really like terms such as Store or Market which evocate buying
</I>>><i> stuff, I think the main purpose of Mageia-app-db will be to install
</I>>><i> free/non-free but free of charge softwares.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> Well, to me, the name market and all of it connotations is quite consumerist,
</I>><i> and
</I>><i> doesn't really fit with the spirit of a community distribution, based on
</I>><i> collaboration
</I>><i> more than pure commercial exchange as the various proposed name implies.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> When samuel presented his idea, I was quite interested because it would
</I>><i> allows me as a packager
</I>><i> to find who would be ok to test packages, to collaborate when i need
</I>><i> confirmation for a bug
</I>><i> and so on.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> But it seems that the vast majority of proposal are geared toward replicating
</I>><i> the model
</I>><i> of Apple Appstore, Google market and others :
</I>><i> - app market, app box, software database, app center, Appworld, software
</I>><i> portal.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> Where is the collaboration in all of this ?
</I>
How about MagicAp, then?
Dale Huckeby
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