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Re: Bug#738839: ITP: mps -- Poor Man's Spotify - Search and stream music



On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 12:31 PM, Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Donnerstag, 13. Februar 2014, Jakub Wilk wrote:
>> https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/poor_man%27s
>
> I knew that :) I still don't think it's appropriate nor helpful to describe
> software with these attributes. (Hints: free software is always free as in
> gratis, and men, well, men^wmeh.)

Packager is using upstream description. From their website,
https://github.com/np1/mps

   Poor Man's Spotify - Search and stream music

In English, the phrase doesn't carry a negative connotation. It is a
clever way to replace something expensive with something less
expensive.

-mz


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