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points by Joel_Mckay 4 days ago | 0 comments

In general, the community tries to avoid/mitigate project naming confusion. It is usually a gentleman's agreement, but sometimes may get nasty with trademarks/copyrights (example: Arduino.)

If you are not associated with a core decision team, it is considered nice to avoid confusing the public. In my opinion, gleaning donations is just theft. =3

[–] rytill 4 days ago

"The community" of every single person that works on software and names things? For which you can speak?

[–] Joel_Mckay 4 days ago

In general, traditionally there are underappreciated curators that take on the role of keeping a named package or program consistent, and may go though a personal validation process with a OS build organization to provide a chain of accountability for the user-base.

The amount of abuse these people endure from general users is a classic rerun. =3

[–] gnabgib 4 days ago

Oh that community! Yeah we banned Joel_Mckay for speaking for us

[–] Joel_Mckay 4 days ago

I wish I had more time to participate in FOSS these days, as there is a backlog of projects I'd like to get done.

Now mostly focused on rather boring small stuff... like sub-micron boring... Have a wonderful day =3

[–] marcus_holmes 4 days ago

"we"?

[–] Joel_Mckay 4 days ago

Are you asking a bad comedian to explain their joke?

My only active FOSS project right now is a unpublished 3D volumetric slicer for a home metal printer that won't be public for another 2 to 3 years for various trade reasons. I code mostly for fun these days, and the dude doesn't sound like fun to work around. =3

[–] marcus_holmes 3 days ago

I was trying, but obviously failing, to extend the joke by asking who "we" was, as per the old Lone Ranger joke (https://huntthedevil.wordpress.com/2015/05/08/what-do-you-me...)

I have no FOSS projects, I'm not sure I entirely agree with it all, there's an element of "getting developers to create free stuff for corporations". I notice there are no "FOSS" architecture plans, or any other professional output. But I digress. Good for you :)

[–] Joel_Mckay 3 days ago

It is a personal choice to share commercially non-viable works under Apache 2.0, but I agree FOSS won't normally pay the bills.

One can't do a OSS project expecting other people to give a toss, but rather it solves a niche issue you and 5 other hobbyists encountered. =3