[Conkeror] Conkeror Gets a New Name

[Chengqi(Lars) Song]

lol, nicely proposed.
On Wed, 01 Apr 2009, Nicholas A. Zigarovich wrote:

> A vocal group of users and developers have long advocated adopting a new  
> name for Conkeror. They worried that confusion would arise in the  
> browser marketplace because 'Conkeror' and KDE's browser 'Konqueror'  
> share the same pronunciation. There was also concern that the necessity  
> of qualifying the name as 'Conkeror-with-a-C' in conversation to avoid  
> such confusion was an unacceptable inconvenience - and sometimes would  
> not preclude confusion at all.
>
> After many painful hours of deliberation and debate, Conkeror developers  
> have finally agreed that the time has come to choose a new name. The  
> process has been a difficult one, what with the hundreds of exceptional  
> suggestions from Conkeror's legions of dedicated users - such as  
> geckomacs, xulmacs, mozmacs, firemacs, webmacs, ciefti (Conkeror is  
> Emacs for the Internet), and of course cwac (Conkeror with a C) - but  
> the developers have finally reached a majority consensus, and Conkeror's  
> new name has been chosen.
>
> In keeping with the idea that the browser's name should have a  
> meaningful etymology, the new name goes one step further by referring to  
> the project itself. Specifically, the new name evokes feelings the  
> developers themselves experienced during the deliberation process, such  
> as the following sentiments.
>
> Conkeror developer John Foerch was heard stating, "I don't [expletive  
> deleted] care anymore. I'm so tired of talking about this. Just pick a  
> [expletive deleted] name already and never talk to me about this again!"
>
> Conkeror developer Nick Zigarovich seemed to vacillate, one day  
> advocating retaining Conkeror as the browser's name, the next day  
> becoming frustrated when new users would complain that this new  
> konqueror browser really sucked, and then proceeded to tell their 
> friends.
>
> Conkeror developer Deniz Dogan, unable to handle the pressure of the  
> deliberation process, suffered a break-down early on. He was last seen  
> curled up in the corner of a padded room, drooling on his pajamas,  
> muttering gibberish while rapidly moving his finger up and down over his  
> lips, producing a noise which could be transcribed as "mmbrlrlbmrbrlb".
>
> The developers have chosen a name which commemorates this historic  
> event, which is easy to pronounce, which could not possibly be mistaken  
> for other software, and which honors the lost friend and co-developer 
> Deniz.
>
> Conkeror shall from this day forward be known as mmbrlrlbmrbrlb.
>
> Piecemeal migration to http://mmbrlrlbmrbrlb.org will take place over  
> the next month, and the source code is expected to reflect this change  
> within the next two weeks. The IRC channel will move to #mmbrlrlbmrbrlb  
> on Freenode when the source code reflects the new name.
>
>
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