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Re: mplayer2 is a very poor fork name used to confuse users.



On Thu, 2011-08-18 at 23:56 -0400, compn wrote:
> mplayer2 is a very poor fork name used to confuse users.
> 
> it doesnt help that debian is using that name as a package:
> http://packages.qa.debian.org/m/mplayer/news/20110817T173341Z.html
> 
> debian and uoti are setting themselves (and us) up for explaining to
> users which version is better.
> why each version is better.
> which version they are using when reporting bugs.
> why 'we dont have mencoder anymore?'
> 'why isnt gmplayer installed with mplayer2?'
> etc
> 
> maybe i'll just go create the debian2 operating system or the google2
> search engine. brilliant!

Or you could rip off the name of a standard Windows program.  Oh wait,
you already did that.

Ben.

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