For the record, Natacha Porte has since informed me that she chose to leave the open source world not particularly because of the controversy with the name but because of the way she has been written out of the history of the best-known wrapper for or fork of her package.
I felt that Frank Smit had actually chosen quite an apt renaming: apparently while Misaka is an anime kick-boxing characters she chooses to wear boxers over her ******* to avoid the impropriety of fighting in her underwear and the possiblity of pantyshots.
One thing we *don't* need on the Internet is places like ZDNet changing the word "p a n t i e s" to a row of asterisks. That's just childish.
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