Re: [dev] OT - suckless or not ? :)

Well, I think the "suck less" term is not original from our comunity.
The same happens with "the Unix philosophy" of XFCE (http://www.xfce.org/):

     "Xfce 4.6 embodies the traditional UNIX philosophy of modularity
and re-usability..."

On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 3:28 PM, Julien Pecqueur
(JPEC)<jpec_AT_julienpecqueur.com> wrote:
> I'm very surprised to heard about suckless philosophy on a definetly not suckless project mailing list : étoilé, a osx-like free project.
>
> -------- Message original --------
> Objet : Re: [Etoile-discuss] New website blurb
> De : Sebastian Nowicki <sebnow_AT_gmail.com>
> À : Discussion list for Étoilé desktop environment <etoile-discuss_AT_gna.org>
> Cc :
>
>
> On Jul 14, 2009, at 10:09 PM, Eric Wasylishen wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> I put a new "introductory paragraph" on http://etoileos.com/. I think
>> it will be more effective at getting visitors
>> interested..comments/feedback?
>
> I think it's pretty good. However, depending on the target audience
> (average Joe, geeks?) I'm not so sure about the revision history part.
> The average Joe probably wouldn't really know what it was or why it's
> useful. Maybe "version tracking" (or whatever MS Word uses) would be a
> more self-explanatory term.
>
>> Does anyone object to using the phrase "Making computers suck less?"
>
> It's not very professional, but I would say it appeals to geeks. It
> reminds me a lot of http://www.suckless.org/
>
> I think the "read more" site needs some expansion on the various
> concepts. At the moment it has a very brief overview of the goals, and
> mostly technical stuff (frameworks).
>
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