[Developers] 'Cactus' to be renamed

Yaakoub El Khamra yye00 at cct.lsu.edu
Sun Apr 1 07:33:04 CDT 2007


lol made my day Tom :)

Cheers
Yaakoub

Tom Goodale wrote:
> Hi,
>
> in order to be more botanically correct with the term 'thorn' we are 
> renaming 'Cactus' to 'Rose'.  The changes will be made over the next few 
> weeks, with CCTK_ functions being replace by RCTK_, the repositories 
> moving to cvs.rosecode.org, etc.
>
> As some of you will appreciate this might cause confusion and licensing 
> issues with the 'Rational Rose' UML authoring software.  In order to avoid 
> these problems IBM have kindly donated the Rose trademarks and copyrights 
> to us and 'Rational Rose' will now be renamed 'Contemplative Cactus'.
>
> We, the Cactus - Rose from this date - authors, are sure that you will be 
> much happier with the new, botanically correct, nomenclature.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Tom
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