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The first GNOME Boxes release

The first GNOME Boxes release

Posted Nov 23, 2011 17:22 UTC (Wed) by galens (guest, #23805)
In reply to: The first GNOME Boxes release by theophrastus
Parent article: The first GNOME Boxes release

You're not the only one. IMHO, that's a really poor choice of names, given that SPICE, the circuit simulator, predates SPICE, the remote protocol, by about 35 years.


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The first GNOME Boxes release

Posted Nov 23, 2011 18:10 UTC (Wed) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]

It wasn't Redhat's choice. It was proprietary software developed by a company that Redhat purchased. Since then they have open sourced it.

The first GNOME Boxes release

Posted Nov 24, 2011 12:29 UTC (Thu) by clump (subscriber, #27801) [Link]

Excuse me, only hyperbole is welcome in this discussion ;)

The first GNOME Boxes release

Posted Nov 27, 2011 6:41 UTC (Sun) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330) [Link]

Yes, but considering that one big market for Red Hat is supplying servers for customers to run electronic design automation software, the name collision is going to be confusing to their customers (though someone's probably checked by now for any clashing command names).

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