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Re:Calibre 4.0 by jodrellblank on Friday October 04, 2019 @12:26PM (#21159236)
Its GPL v3 licensed, any one of those complaining people could fork it and name it what they want it to be called.
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Re:Calibre 4.0 by saagarjha on Friday October 04, 2019 @01:13PM (#21159731)
That wouldn’t solve the issue. In fact it might the problem worse.
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Re:Calibre 4.0 by jodrellblank on Saturday October 05, 2019 @04:41PM (#21167809)
Wouldn't it? If the complaint is that the project is too hard to find and too hard to form any kind of online community (searchable blog posts, forum posts, etc) around, then a fork with a more distinctive name should become the dominant version by accreting the larger userbase.
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