On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 04:25:11PM -0500, Stuart Brorson wrote:
> Are any of the PCB developers (DJ, Dan, Harry) aware of this:
>
> http://opencircuitdesign.com/pcb/
This is a proof that the "STFW" (Search The Fucking Web) is a
fundamentally broken concept. If a user does SFTW("pcb"), he gets random
homepage from these three:
http://opencircuitdesign.com/pcb/
http://bach.ece.jhu.edu/~haceaton/pcb/
http://pcb.sourceforge.net/
They have different content so the "pcb" the user finds this way is
every time completely different.
This already happened to me in the past. The first PCB version I tried
to work with was very obsolete one from
http://bach.ece.jhu.edu/~haceaton/pcb/ which was almost impossible to
make work. I lost very many hours on these futile attempts before I
was told on mailing list that there is another homepage.
This shows that it's necessary to have every project's boundaries
shraply defined and all arguments about google are irrelevant.
Two of the homepages should be erased or renamed to different project
names. Doesn't GPL require the derived program to be called differently
unless the creator gets permission for calling it the same?
CL<
>
> >From the webpage:
>
> PCB 3.0 is a branch of the source code modified to operate under the
> Tcl/Tk interpreter. Most of the coding for PCB 3.0 was done at
> MultiGiG, Inc., Scotts Valley, California, by Tim Edwards, Paramesh
> Santanam, and (working from India, courtesy of SynApps, Inc.), Nishit
> Patel. The code base is a departure from the original PCB in that a
> complete Tcl command-line API was concocted for PCB, and the GUI
> re-written as a Tk script. For the first cut (version 3.0), a fair bit
> of effort went to ensuring that the GUI looks and acts as much like
> the original Xlib-based version.
>
> Any thoughts about how to merge this with gPCB?
>
> Stuart
