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<B>andre999</B>
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<I>Mon Feb 14 23:30:56 CET 2011</I>
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<PRE>Romain d'Alverny a écrit :
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</I>><i> On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 20:08, Wolfgang Bornath<<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">molch.b at googlemail.com</A>> wrote:
</I>>><i> 2011/2/12 Michael Scherer<<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">misc at zarb.org</A>>:
</I>...
>>><i> Where is the collaboration in all of this ?
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> Yes, I agree to this point of view. "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
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