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Organic Maps Forked Over Governance Concerns: CoMaps is Born (news.itsfoss.com)

submitted 8 months ago by neme@lemm.ee to c/opensource@programming.dev

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[–] athairmor@lemmy.world 87 points 8 months ago (12 children)

This is great that they’re forking but do that have to continue the OSS tradition of terrible app names?

[–] Colloidal@programming.dev 47 points 8 months ago (3 children)

The name was voted by the community. There were a lot of very good names that unfortunately were already being used by other projects. I'm not a fan of the final choice either.

[–] athairmor@lemmy.world 12 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

And, It’s not even unique.

On the iOS App Store, for example, there is:

MyCOMAP
COMAP
ComAp Helpcentre
MYCOMAP BALANCING
and two apps from a company named COMAP S.A.

[–] Colloidal@programming.dev 0 points 8 months ago

Yes, it was pointed out that CoMaps was also the name of a business operating in... maps. So if the project gets traction, they'll likely be sued into a better name.

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