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When Software Offends

Posted by samzenpus on from the ruffling-feathers dept.

ndogg writes "The open source Python projects Pantyshot and Upskirt have caused quite a stir within the Python community, and catalyzed the leaving of one of their developers (a woman whose native language is not English.) The original developer, Frank Smit, has renamed Pantyshot to Misaka, but that too has suspect etymology, as Violet Blue points out."

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  1. Re:Well.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    And if you continue reading after the error ridden article you'll see that it in fact wasn't the name that made her quit, but rather that she felt that she wasn't getting proper credit for her work. But why read when you can look like a raging retard instead?

  2. FCKeditor isn't really a good example by Attack+DAWWG · · Score: 5, Informative

    To be fair, FCKeditor was named after its author, Frederico Caldeira Knabben, who is from Brazil. Evidently that was his real name and he didn't at first realize the unfortunate similarity of his initials to an English swear word--but even if he had realized this, they were still his real initials, so I think he would still have some right to name it that. In any case, the name of the editor has now been changed to CKEditor.