Absurdity of the Day
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Someone has forked GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) just so they can change the name (to Glimpse), because they were triggered by the acronym. This app has been call The GIMP since 1996. I guess I should rethink my name suggestion for a new app we're going to develop - Training And Readiness Database (TARD).
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013Seems you have lived under a Rock. Microsoft has changed lots of products names just to fit the current trend. For example, Office 365 was once called Office Live and the domain still exists (live.com) and it's been used by what used to be called Office Online Apps. A long time ago, a friend of mine developed a quasi game for NeXT computer. As you might not know, all applications in the NeXT and all it's descendants (macOS, iPadOS, tvOS, etc) are really a Unix folder with the extension *.app and inside you'll find several executables which are simple
chmod 755files. Long story short, he crated theNap.appwhich would a screen saver like system which would allow you to fly above the clouds, like in a dream. Several friends of mine tested it and wanted a port to Windows 3.11, so he worked hard to change everything from Objetive C into C++. Regardless to say, he had no sleep for like 10 days, just to have something working in Win32. Rendering on Windows was horrendous and he decided to code using a DOS lib which triggered full screen and draw directly into the hardware using CGA or VGA. The end result was waay worse than in the NeXT but the market was waaaay bigger, kinda like today doing things for iOS on Obj-C or Swift or going the Electron route for Android. In the end, the Application was still named Nap.app but installed itself into aNAPAPPfolder and inside there was theNAP.EXEexecutable, which behaved like a DOS program. When he started testing everybody complained that the name sounded like NAPALM andNAP.EXEsounded like a gas chamber (you know they make you sleep before they EXEcute you. Ironically you could run the program with just NAP, but still people complained. He then realized that you could the name the program folder NAP.APP as DOS allows extensions on names, but when he made the change, people start confusing the installed folder with a document and tried to open it on Windows Notepad or WordPro, to a very big error. So he decided to change the name toWLKINCLDafter the 1995 Movie "A Walk in the Clouds". Nobody got the reference but that's when Windows 95 got Long File names so he packaged everything with InstallShield and changed the name (again) to "Your Walk in the Clouds" so it can appear that way on the Start Menu and onc:\Program Filesand promptly got a 20th Century Lawyer "cease and desist". Bummer. By that time and having spent 5 -
Seems you have lived under a Rock. Microsoft has changed lots of products names just to fit the current trend. For example, Office 365 was once called Office Live and the domain still exists (live.com) and it's been used by what used to be called Office Online Apps. A long time ago, a friend of mine developed a quasi game for NeXT computer. As you might not know, all applications in the NeXT and all it's descendants (macOS, iPadOS, tvOS, etc) are really a Unix folder with the extension *.app and inside you'll find several executables which are simple
chmod 755files. Long story short, he crated theNap.appwhich would a screen saver like system which would allow you to fly above the clouds, like in a dream. Several friends of mine tested it and wanted a port to Windows 3.11, so he worked hard to change everything from Objetive C into C++. Regardless to say, he had no sleep for like 10 days, just to have something working in Win32. Rendering on Windows was horrendous and he decided to code using a DOS lib which triggered full screen and draw directly into the hardware using CGA or VGA. The end result was waay worse than in the NeXT but the market was waaaay bigger, kinda like today doing things for iOS on Obj-C or Swift or going the Electron route for Android. In the end, the Application was still named Nap.app but installed itself into aNAPAPPfolder and inside there was theNAP.EXEexecutable, which behaved like a DOS program. When he started testing everybody complained that the name sounded like NAPALM andNAP.EXEsounded like a gas chamber (you know they make you sleep before they EXEcute you. Ironically you could run the program with just NAP, but still people complained. He then realized that you could the name the program folder NAP.APP as DOS allows extensions on names, but when he made the change, people start confusing the installed folder with a document and tried to open it on Windows Notepad or WordPro, to a very big error. So he decided to change the name toWLKINCLDafter the 1995 Movie "A Walk in the Clouds". Nobody got the reference but that's when Windows 95 got Long File names so he packaged everything with InstallShield and changed the name (again) to "Your Walk in the Clouds" so it can appear that way on the Start Menu and onc:\Program Filesand promptly got a 20th Century Lawyer "cease and desist". Bummer. By that time and having spent 5You completely missed the point. It's not the mere fact that they're changing the name, it's the REASON.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
