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Re:DeaDBeeF: The Ultimate Music Player by leviathant on Wednesday February 12, 2025 @12:08PM (#43027318)
"Why hasn't Gimp found mainstream success?"

"Adoption of our Ogg Vorbis format isn't where we hoped it to be"

"Fork me on Git"

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Re:DeaDBeeF: The Ultimate Music Player by GuB-42 on Wednesday February 12, 2025 @01:40PM (#43028325)
Git is just a hobby project named after the author, like Linux.

Yes, really:

https://archive.kernel.org/oldwiki/git.wiki.kernel.org/index...

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~awb/linux.history.html

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Re:DeaDBeeF: The Ultimate Music Player by leviathant on Wednesday February 12, 2025 @01:50PM (#43028424)
Neat! Both Linux and Git are examples of terrible product names.
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