On Saturday 28 July 2007, Michael Satterwhite wrote: > On the features page, there is a reference to an expanded version > of pan at chimpanxi.com. I thought I'd look. This is a site devoted > to chimpazees (the primate) with no reference to software of any > type. > > Is this a misprint or just a joke?
I think the joke on the Pan site is a (really old) riff on Ximian. In particular, it references the community's fears, when Ximian was founded, that it was the first step to making Evolution (or possibly all of GNOME) a proprietary product somehow. So we have the word that means monkey, "xi" in the name to make it unique and trademarkable, and the fake announcement of a proprietary expanded version of Pan. Looks like the domain itself is owned by squatters now, with keyword-based "relevant" advertising links and bait words in the title to game search engines. Personally, I would have preferred the name change anyway, just because it'd be a lot easier to google when I'm troubleshooting! Rob _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
