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<B>Olav Dahlum</B>
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<I>Mon Feb 14 05:01:14 CET 2011</I>
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<PRE>On 13/02/11 02:15, Kristoffer Grundström wrote:
><i> MagicADB would be more appropiate.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> 2011/2/13 Dale Huckeby <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">spock at evansville.net</A>>
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</I>>><i> On Sat, 12 Feb 2011, Michael Scherer wrote:
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</I>>><i> On Sat, 12 Feb 2011 00:00:09 +0100, Rémi Verschelde wrote:
</I>>>><i>
</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>
</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>
</I>>>>>><i>
</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>
</I>>>><i> Well, to me, the name market and all of it connotations is quite
</I>>>><i> consumerist, 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
</I>>>><i> replicating 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>>>><i>
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> How about MagicAp, then?
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> Dale Huckeby
</I>><i>
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Or just keep it simple: "Mageia Application Database" - <insert
slogan/vision here>
-Olav
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