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Comment by KaiserPro

5 hours ago

Name changes are controversial. Nothing gets nerds going more than changing a project name so companies work better with OSS.

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burnte  4 hours ago

Yes, I know, but that all just underscores what I said about it being emotional. Logically it's not only Wacom but for any tablet. It would do better with a new name as other competitors would help. But the emotional resistance to changing the name keeps those logical improvements form happening.

MomsAVoxell  4 hours ago

True nerds name things properly in the first place. The liberal use of -wacom throughout project names and repositories is a consequence of the Wacom itch being scratched - and then that scratch becoming the base upon which Wacoms' competitors can participate. A true nerd would've skipped including the brand in a directory name, in the first place .. I bet these drivers started off being written by graphics designers, not nerds.

inigyou  5 hours ago

Yet name changes happen easily when legally forced. Wireshark, MariaDB, and LibreOffice.

Onavo  5 hours ago

main vs master

  • wiether  5 hours ago

    The issue has always been with the reasons invoked to make the change

    Otherwise it would have been smoother

    • happymellon  4 hours ago

      You didn't hear the foaming at the mouth shouting to rename master recordings, master documents, or dub over The Master from Dr. Who.

      Considering how much effort we had to out into fixing pipelines because of hardcoded scripts, and the lack of good reason to do it its no surprise that it was scoffed at. White keyboard warriors needed to make a change, but couldn't do anything meaningful as it would require actually doing something.

      At least this change makes sense.

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