Re: Bad practices from competitors

2020-05-16 Thread Camille Moulin
Hi Narcis, On 16/05/2020 08:40, Narcis Garcia wrote: > Software packages repositories are useful to guarantee sources and > binaries for most of users. > Knomo is reporting a consequence of "click to download" strategy > (appimage, exe...) > > Best distribution projects provide (for example) APT r

Re: Bad practices from competitors

2020-05-16 Thread Camille Moulin
Hi Knomo, Thanks for bringing that up. Such name abuse is a real problem for many Open Source projects. Cheers, Camille On 16/05/2020 02:57, Knomo Seikei wrote: > Hi! I found a problem. > > I recommended Kdenlive to a friend because he was looking for an open > source video-editor alternative. Thi

Re: Bad practices from competitors

2020-05-16 Thread Camille Moulin
Hello Akil, On 16/05/2020 11:29, Akhil wrote: > I wonder if this has legal implications, Yes, it has :-) > surely using a competitor's name for your own product advertisement > qualifies as "Misrepresentation" under "Falsely implying affiliation > with, or endorsement by, another individual, organi

Re: Bad practices from competitors

2020-05-16 Thread Camille Moulin
On 16/05/2020 11:10, Narcis Garcia wrote: > [...] > Package for more root families, such as Ubuntu instead of Mint, Debian > instead of Ubuntu. Same on Red Hat instead of CentOS or Fedora. This > way, a project can deploy repositories for 1 or 2 distros with > consistent and compatible dependencies

Re: Bad practices from competitors

2020-05-16 Thread Narcis Garcia
Software packages repositories are useful to guarantee sources and binaries for most of users. Knomo is reporting a consequence of "click to download" strategy (appimage, exe...) Best distribution projects provide (for example) APT repository to users are up-to-date + have secure files origins.

Re: Bad practices from competitors

2020-05-16 Thread j...@dodin.org
Le 16/05/2020 à 12:21, Camille Moulin a écrit : On 16/05/2020 11:10, Narcis Garcia wrote: This isolation walks contrary to systems integration and administration tasks and automation, and isolates from package managers as a trusted "stores" where get apps from. I very much agree with that, a

Re: Bad practices from competitors

2020-05-16 Thread LuKaRo
On 16.05.20 11:59, Camille Moulin wrote: Try with Bing maybe (first time I ever wrote such a statement ;-) ). In France, we get a similar result as Knomo, but translated in French. Hi, luckily, no fishy advertising when searching for "kdenlive" on DuckDuckGo, Google, Bing or Yahoo for me whe

Re: Bad practices from competitors

2020-05-16 Thread Narcis Garcia
Thank you Camille, Narcis Garcia El 16/5/20 a les 10:35, Camille Moulin ha escrit: > Yes package repos are great, but they come with two inconveniences in > the context of GNU/Linux distributions : Most of applications face similar inconveniences for GNU distributions, and they mostly do the fol