Ridiculous. In Portuguese, "Tifo" is the name of a mortal disease;
If this bothers you, maybe you would like to change the name "LessTif"
to something else. I personally wouldn't make a fuss about it,
though. With so many languages in the world, it could be hard to find
any name that doesn't resemble some unpleasant word in some language.
"tif"
is used as extension of the name files in "Tag Image File Format" [free
implementation available,
I have always thought of that as TIFF, and pronounced it with a short
i, so there would be no confusion with Tif.
But if people refer to those files as just "tif" also, then it could
be confusing to use "Tif" here. So I agree it would be better to use
some other name.
Copyright (c) 1988-1996 Sam Leffler; Copyright
(c) 1991-1996 Silicon Graphics, Inc.]; "theft" is the act of stealing and
"thief" is the one that steals.
I agree that "Thief" would be a bad choice--why even suggest it?
Come on man, give to OSF (Open Group) at least the credit they deserve for
inventing the Motif API and use the right name to the $#@*+&% thing!
I would never deny that they designed the API (the word "invent" seems
too strong for such an activity). The issue is whether to steer
people in the direction of using the *program* Motif; talking about
"Motif this" and "Motif that" will tend to do so.
Don't
feel ashamed of copying it as you did it before when copied the UNIX
operating system in "GNU/Linux".
I'm not ashamed of imitating Unix, or of imitating Motif. I'm ashamed
of the developers of Unix and Motif for making them non-free.
