Re: [Gaim-i18n] Re: Bad language in Gaim

[Luke S. <lsc...@us...>]

On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 09:49:03PM +0200, Bjoern Voigt wrote:
> Hello all!
> 
> I contacted Syd Logan. He wants that we change his credit's entry. So 
> please respect him and change his credit entries (in AUTHORS, 
> doc/gaim.1.in, src/gtkdialogs.c)
> 
> Greetings, Björn

I doubt he was consulted when Eric wrote it.  I don't doubt that he
would have requested it be changed if he had been consulted.  Even if
neither of the above is true (which you'd have a hard time convincing
me of), I doubt Syd, or Eric, expected gaim to grow as it has.  I
doubt any of us did.

I really don't buy that request as a reason to change something that
has been there for longer than I have been a developer, though not
longer than I have been a user.  I am ALWAYS hesitant to change
non-functional parts of Gaim that have bearing on us as a group, that
are our history.   With software, to change it is to lose part of
what makes us come to gaim: that element of fun, that element of it
NOT being a corporate project.  That element that lets us say things
as we see them, do what we want, when we want.

Be it a little line in the about box, some randomness in our comments
(including a dragon, some humor, and even a little bit of text that
is rather more offensive than that about box line), or the odd easter
egg, we need these things to remind us that this is supposed to be
FUN, and that we are not out to conquer the business market.  If we
had been, then we wouldn't now be in a position to get confused about
it.

luke