Dave Page wrote:
>Anyone notice that wxWindows now seems to be called wxWidgets? A letter
>from Microsoft perhaps?
>
>
I didn't bother you about that deeply, indeed there was a letter from M$
in AUGUST secretly to two wx people, which agreed with M$ without
sufficient notice to the community to cease the name wxWindows. Robin
Dunn, the owner, handed over the domain to M$, and Julian Smart signed
something that he personally won't use the name any more (and obtained
money of unknown anmount). Objectively, there's absolutely no reason to
cease using that name, with that document or without (as even a core
developer admits), but the domain is gone.
There was harsh discussion about the openness of that project, and I
wasn't the quitest about that. I suggested to rename to wxJulian, but he
decided to use wxWidgets(Yes this doesn't read as 'the community elected
that name')
While the discussion was at its top, Julian commented on some discussion
mails he didn't like as "making me vomit".
I'm still out of words (at least out of polite ones).
Regards,
Andreas
