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@@ -3,12 +3,11 @@ Pillow
 
 Pillow is a "friendly" fork of the Python Imaging Library. The goal is to see
 if any improvement can be made to the packaging situation(*) by opening up
-development to the "public".
+development to the "public" and exploring the problem within the fork.
 
 Please email: aclark@aclark.net if you'd like to help, or complain.
 
-(*)PIL has a bad reputation for not "playing nice" with other packages. It's
-kind of a long story, and you either know it by now or you don't. A better 
-explanation may come later.
+(*) PIL aims to support the 'import Image' statement which will fail whenever
+there is another 'Image' module in the top level namespace.
 
 For PIL's README, check out PIL.txt