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[Monte Goulding]

On 03/03/2013, at 8:35 PM, Richmond <richmondmathewson at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 03/03/2013 11:11 AM, Monte Goulding wrote:
>> On 03/03/2013, at 11:22 AM, Roger Eller <roger.e.eller at sealedair.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Do we also refer to it as LCIi?
> 
> Hey, I've got a Macintosh LC475 in my attic in Scotland; maybe the ghost of Steve will 'do' RunRev through
> the courts.
> 
>> I only said I imagine not all the rest y'all imagine.... Make up your own name for your own fork ;-)
> 
> That's going to make things 'forking' confusing.
> 
> It will end up like names for Karate styles . . .
> 
> The other thing that does occur to me is whether Monte's fork having some really fantastic features and Jacque's fork
> having some different fantastic features will cause me to have a nervous breakdown because I am unable to choose
> between them, or, like a shop with a really revolting name  just round the corner here in Plovdiv, called "Accessorize", one can
> cherry pick from different 'forks', 'distros' (ha,ha,ha; now there's a word to conjure with) the features one most likes.
> 
> Just for the sake of argument: my second PC is currently running Ubuntu 12.04 with the 'Pantheon' window manager
> and the 'Avant Window Manager' dock. That set up did not come out of one box, but got cobbled together by me.
> 
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> 
> Perhaps the answer is going to depend on where the mods in each fork lie . . .
> 
> Obviously if they lie in the GUI they can be swapped around,
> 
> If they are in that mysterious collection of stacks staring with 'rev' they can be swapped around, albeit with less impunity that
> plain GUI ones,
> 
> And mods to the engine????? Probably no chance of mixing-and-matching there.
> 
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> 
> Certainly if there really are going to be 108 forks (and forks of forks);
> 
> Big fleas have little fleas,
> Upon their backs to bite 'em,
> And little fleas have lesser fleas,
> and so, ad infinitum.
> 
> a coherent and comprehensible naming convention will have to be established, otherwise nobody will stand a chance.
> 
> I don't think "Livecode Richmond out of Jacque out of Klaus out of Monte out of Edinburgh" is going to help much.
> 
> "Adam begat CAIN who begat ENOCH who begat IRAD who begat MEHUJAEL who begat METHUSAEL who begat LAMECH"
> 
> I remember asking my Primary school teacher what that all meant and she went bright red, because, poor dear, she hadn't a clue.
> Although I am the father of 2 boys (whoops, young men), I still don't understand how those Old Testament types did "it"
> with not a woman in sight . . . LOL.  Probably the answer lies hidden in that unusual verb.
> 
>> 
>> --
>> Monte Goulding
>> 
>> M E R Goulding - software development services
>> mergExt - There's an external for that!
> 
> Probably not anymore - all those externals will get rolled into the 'stew'.
> 
> And that is also a potential pitfall; so many ingredients in the stew that the whole thing is completely tasteless
> and just one great big, ugly mush.
> 
> Richmond.
> 
> 
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