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It's a bit of a niche name I know but look at Facebook, they had a crap name and millions of marketing dollars and succeeded anyway and all I have to deal with is a crap name
🐹 hhgxyxynszzyr, trips right off the tongue
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As we all know, early intervention is important. Schools are overwhelmingly teaching children to use proprietary software, which in addition to being against the spirit of liberation in computing, can be considered basically equivalent to a competition-stifling government handout to already-rich corporations, ensuring their customer base into the next generation.
🐧 Unfortunately I myself have been banned from the premises but if anybody else wants to bring up ANUS to their local school board at the next meeting,
🐹 it stands for "hhgxyxynszzyr ain't painus"
🐹 It's a bit of a niche name I know but look at Facebook, they had a crap name and millions of marketing dollars and succeeded anyway and all I have to deal with is a crap name
🐹 hhgxyxynszzyr, trips right off the tongue
🐹 Honestly I think the name should be neutral while representing the underlying technology, which is why my fork is called hhgxyxynszzyr
🐹 it stands for "hhgxyxynszzyr ain't painus"
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I'm forking ANUS because of the godawful name🐰 My new project is called Pete's (fork of) Andrew's Interesting New User (friendly)">🐰 My new project is called Pete's (fork of) Andrew's Interesting New User (friendly) Search
🐹 Honestly I think the name should be neutral while representing the underlying technology, which is why my fork is called hhgxyxynszzyr
🐧 Finally, my new search software is finished
🐧 Twice as fast and user friendly as the corpo shit, but free and empowering and only contains useful information
🐧 This is going to change the world🐧 I call it Andrew's New Userfriendly">🐧 I call it Andrew's New Userfriendly Search
🐰 I'm forking ANUS because of the godawful name🐰 My new project is called Pete's (fork of) Andrew's Interesting New User (friendly)">🐰 My new project is called Pete's (fork of) Andrew's Interesting New User (friendly) Search
🐰 fiddling with phone ugh, what did he say it was called, exemplary pee? oh ffs now I gotta confirm my age again...
🐧 Finally, my new search software is finished
🐧 Twice as fast and user friendly as the corpo shit, but free and empowering and only contains useful information
🐧 This is going to change the world🐧 I call it Andrew's New Userfriendly">🐧 I call it Andrew's New Userfriendly Search
Before you commit to a name for your free software you should at least once say it aloud in a public place
🐰 fiddling with phone ugh, what did he say it was called, exemplary pee? oh ffs now I gotta confirm my age again...
Like, saying to your mate down the pub "Oh you should get on Jabber" versus "You should get on ecks em pee pee"
One of these words sounds like a thing for talking about whatever with your mates, the other sounds like a thing for bollocking around with config files so you can talk to other people who bollock around with config files about bollocking around with config files
Before you commit to a name for your free software you should at least once say it aloud in a public place
The biggest hurdle towards Jabber adoption is people calling it XMPP
Like, saying to your mate down the pub "Oh you should get on Jabber" versus "You should get on ecks em pee pee"
One of these words sounds like a thing for talking about whatever with your mates, the other sounds like a thing for bollocking around with config files so you can talk to other people who bollock around with config files about bollocking around with config files
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So you've made a great program that pisses all over the paid alternatives, great, now for the love of god please delegate the naming of that software to someone Normal so you don't end up calling it something like Kalculator
The biggest hurdle towards Jabber adoption is people calling it XMPP
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