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[Paul <dufflebunk AT dufflebunk.homeip.net>]

Personaly, I don't care if a corporation uses SMGL or not. They aren't
my target when I develop, my target is people. Corporations are stupid,
groups of people are usualy stupid. Individuals are usualy intelligent,
that's why I target them.

On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 11:30, Eric Sandall wrote:
> Quoting Jason Flatt <jason AT flattfamily.com>:
> > OK, now this thread is starting to go down a path I have been 
> > contemplating 
> > quite a bit, lately.
> > 
> > It seems to me that Source Mage is a prime candidate for creating a kind 
> > of 
> > themed Linux distribution.  (No groans, please.)  :^)  It would take a 
> > bit of
> > 
> > work and would be more of a feature request for the 2.0 version, but I 
> > think
> > 
> > it would be possible to make the commands, terminology, etc. used in 
> > Source 
> > Mage generic enough and abstracted enough that it would be possible to 
> > apply
> > 
> > different themes to the various parts of SMGL.
> > 
> > One could make the commands, terminology, etc. more specific to LOTR, for 
> > example.  Or take it into the other genre, and use terms in Star Wars or 
> > Star
> > 
> > Trek or ...  The default, of course, would be Source Mage.
> > 
> > Thoughts?
> 
> One of our LUG members kept pointing out that our names were silly and no
> corporation would want something like this. I disagreed as only the admins
> would know the names. ;) However, a themed Sorcery wouldn't be too bad an 
> idea
> in the future, especially since we're all about options! ;)
> 
> We could use more generic names in Sorcery, or just write wrappers on the
> outside that translate it to the correct names, which wouldn't even be too 
> much
> work (I hope).
> 
> -sandalle
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