18th May 2012, 2:31 PM
(This post was last modified: 18th May 2012, 2:42 PM by Dark Jaguar.)
I guess it's a fine deal if you intend on using it on a daily basis for big projects. I myself would only use the software once in a blue moon. There's also the matter of simply preferring to own software until the heat death of the universe instead of in the form of a license.
I don't care if he named it after his dog. I wouldn't much appreciate someone naming a piece of software after their cat Niggerman, no matter how much affection they have towards their admittedly innocent cat.
Note: Niggerman was the name of the main character's cat in the Lovecraft story "The Rats in the Walls". Yeah, sometimes you gotta really twist your mind around certain elements to enjoy those stories, and really that's one of the least racist things I've read in those stories. Herbert West: Reanimator featured two scientists gathering dead black people from underground boxing matches who "wouldn't be missed" when they had to find bodies. The description of the black people as "monstrous" didn't help matters. It doesn't stop at black though, he goes on to describe the corrupted swamp hillbillies who's inbred young are essentially a family of mole men who will one day emerge from the depths and rule the world. Horror of Innsmouth's horror was the result of the people of that town inbreeding with horrible fish people, their grotesque young plotting to sacrifice purebred humans to their dark sea god. Think of that next time you play OOT and Ruto proposes to you. The Horror at Zora's Domain indeed. Basically what I'm getting at is not only was Lovecraft racist, he was actually more racist than the average person in his time, his own wife telling him to lay off the jews on numerous occasions.
Well that was uncomfortable. Anyway, I don't much care how lovingly such an offensive term was originally intended. It should be changed.
I don't care if he named it after his dog. I wouldn't much appreciate someone naming a piece of software after their cat Niggerman, no matter how much affection they have towards their admittedly innocent cat.
Note: Niggerman was the name of the main character's cat in the Lovecraft story "The Rats in the Walls". Yeah, sometimes you gotta really twist your mind around certain elements to enjoy those stories, and really that's one of the least racist things I've read in those stories. Herbert West: Reanimator featured two scientists gathering dead black people from underground boxing matches who "wouldn't be missed" when they had to find bodies. The description of the black people as "monstrous" didn't help matters. It doesn't stop at black though, he goes on to describe the corrupted swamp hillbillies who's inbred young are essentially a family of mole men who will one day emerge from the depths and rule the world. Horror of Innsmouth's horror was the result of the people of that town inbreeding with horrible fish people, their grotesque young plotting to sacrifice purebred humans to their dark sea god. Think of that next time you play OOT and Ruto proposes to you. The Horror at Zora's Domain indeed. Basically what I'm getting at is not only was Lovecraft racist, he was actually more racist than the average person in his time, his own wife telling him to lay off the jews on numerous occasions.
Well that was uncomfortable. Anyway, I don't much care how lovingly such an offensive term was originally intended. It should be changed.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)