RE: Major announcement

And while not as weighty as the questions below,

4) What's with the new name?  Even if ethereal does do more
than just ethernet, the name still seems much more suited
than a salt water sea creature made of wire. 

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Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2006 4:45 PM
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Subject: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Major announcement

Some more FAQs for the Wireshark FAQ:

"1) Why did you fork Ethereal?"
as in, do you have a broad vision for improvements to the core of
ethereal that you couldn't manage otherwise? Was it just to change the
name? etc.

"2) With your obvious people skills, have you considered going into
politics?"
No discussion prior to the "move," a backhanded slap to anyone that
doesn't work at CACE as being non-core-developers, etc.

3) What does this mean for the Ethereal project, if anything

Forking a project is a huge political event in any project, essentially
as violent an act as occurs in any FOSS project. One does not expect it
to be done lightly.

-- John.
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