Re: The name Freetalk is already in use

Not for nothing, but I don't really think that Freetalk needs a public
name anyway.
Users Don't look at Freenet as a platform... We might get there someday,
but  everything I've seen in the irc channel, the support list, and
talking with friends indicates that people look at Freenet as a program -
Advanced users think of it as a protocol, which is under development and
only used by Freenet, it's main program.

No one I've ever talked to has thought of it as a platform for
applications to be developed on.

This means that Freetalk isn't it's own independent entity, that runs on
top of Freenet.. FreeTalk would be "Posting a message on Freenet"


FreeMail is "Sending a personal message over Freenet"
FreeTalk is "Posting to a Freenet Forum"
Fproxy loaded pages are "Websites on Freenet"
etc, etc.

I think this is the right behavior to encourage, because it helps make
Freenet understandable.

-CPD

> On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 12:18 PM, Matthew Toseland <
> toad-EI5O+8PHWbJeeLb3ft/[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On Tuesday 26 May 2009 16:42:55 3BUIb3S50i 3BUIb3S50i wrote:
>> > djk@isFiaD04zgAgnrEC5XJt1i4IE7AkNPqhBG5bONi6Yks wrote :
>> > > http://www.gnu.org/software/freetalk/
>>
>> Every reasonably interesting name is already in use. :|
>>
>> Suggestions for renaming Freetalk are welcome as far as I am concerned.
>>
>
> We should stick with "Freetalk" unless someone comes up with a clearly
> better name that isn't taken.
>
> The "freetalk" software you mention is not high-profile, and I think we
> are
> placing an excessive restriction on ourselves if we must find an
> absolutely
> unique name - we'll end up having to call it something like
> "f745jhgf!!&p".
>
> Ian.
>
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