[Mplayer-dev-eng] MPlayers definition

Felix Buenemann atmosfear at users.sourceforge.net
Sun Jul 22 14:41:25 CEST 2001


Hello Christoph,

Sunday, July 22, 2001, 2:10:52 PM, you wrote:

> Am Sonntag, 22. Juli 2001 13:53 schrieben Sie:
>> Hello mplayer-dev-eng,
>>
>>       we always call MPlayer the movie player for linux, but as we run
>>       on more then linux already shouldn't we change that to something
>>       more reasonable?

> <geekjoke>
> How about    Movie Player for GNU/Linux  ?
> </geekjoke>
*g*

> Maybe   
> "Movie Player for Linux (and many other UN*Xes) "   or MPfLamoU ?
> "Movie Player for many UN*Xes including our favourite Linux"  or MPfmUiofL ?
yess :)
> "Movie Player for many plattforms but not Windows"  or   MPfmpbnW ?
naa, maybe we'll get there.
> "Movie Player without a GUI (although it's in work)" or MPwaG(aiiw) ?
that's a good one too :)
or Movie Player without a GUI (comming soon (TM)) MPwaGcs
> Maybe "Movie Player for Linux" is enough, if you add a note on the homepage 
> that it also runs on other systems.
or Movie Player for NIX it has nice meaning in german :)

> Nevertheless it would also be correct to call it: 

> "The only(!) Movie Player for SUN Solaris"    or  To(!)MPfSS
let's have multiple homepages with different definitions =)

> But I doubt that AOL will pay a million dollar for it one day, if it's called 
> any of that...
AOL *pffft*

> gruel
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 Felix                            mailto:atmosfear at users.sourceforge.net



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