Re: [MiNT] sending diffs to Apache and others

[stehlik@cas3.zlin.vutbr.cz (Petr Stehlik)]

On Wed, 27 Jan 1999 01:19:37 -0500 (EST), Katherine Ellis wrote:

KE>> I mean, we ported all those, but visiting the official web sites
KE>> of those organizations shows that MiNT is never listed among the
KE>> supported platforms.  (btw, amiga is always shown there - why is
KE>> MiNT not there too?)

I think people were often lazy to send the modifications back to the
original author. Or perhaps Atari related changes in sources were not
generally accepted by the original authors?

KE>the prob I think is: should we be proud of the name "atari" for MiNT?
KE>like, atari-mint, or should we try to avoid the name as much as possible
KE>to NOT give the wrong impression to some people..

impression to non-Atari (like Amiga) people is not important. Much more
important is if Atari users are able to locate and use the Atari
versions of various software. I mean there are people out there running
MagiC or Geneva or something else and do not know anything about MiNT.
For them, MiNT version is like Amiga or Mac version. "atari" is still
the base, the most common name for all our machines, I think.

Petr
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