On 13/02/11 02:15, Kristoffer Grundström wrote: > MagicADB would be more appropiate. > > 2011/2/13 Dale Huckeby <[email protected]> > >> On Sat, 12 Feb 2011, Michael Scherer wrote: >> >> On Sat, 12 Feb 2011 00:00:09 +0100, Rémi Verschelde wrote: >>> >>>> 2011/2/11 George J. Walsh <[email protected]>: >>>> >>>>> Or maybe, with tongue in cheek, PackRack? >>>>> >>>>> I get a little weary of the app thing (too much of the Apple core in >>>>> there!) A package is a pack and a rack is where one stores one's packs. >>>>> >>>>> George >>>>> >>>>> >>>> I'm not too fond of the App-Whatever either, sounds too Apple-ish to me. >>>> I don't really like terms such as Store or Market which evocate buying >>>> stuff, I think the main purpose of Mageia-app-db will be to install >>>> free/non-free but free of charge softwares. >>>> >>> >>> Well, to me, the name market and all of it connotations is quite >>> consumerist, and >>> doesn't really fit with the spirit of a community distribution, based on >>> collaboration >>> more than pure commercial exchange as the various proposed name implies. >>> >>> When samuel presented his idea, I was quite interested because it would >>> allows me as a packager >>> to find who would be ok to test packages, to collaborate when i need >>> confirmation for a bug >>> and so on. >>> >>> But it seems that the vast majority of proposal are geared toward >>> replicating the model >>> of Apple Appstore, Google market and others : >>> - app market, app box, software database, app center, Appworld, software >>> portal. >>> >>> Where is the collaboration in all of this ? >>> >> >> How about MagicAp, then? >> >> Dale Huckeby >
Or just keep it simple: "Mageia Application Database" - <insert slogan/vision here> -Olav
