i agree with the name OpenIndiana
On 09/10/2010 19:44, Daniel Kjar wrote:
Sorry, I thought I was replying to this 'thread'. You are right about the
googling though. Nobody else would ever use the name openindiana for
anything, ever.
On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 5:50 AM, Rob McMahon<[email protected]> wrote:
On 10/ 9/10 12:40 AM, Daniel Kjar wrote:
I like Polaris, "our star"... not so much.
Very useful for celestial navigation so there is some 'meaning'. Polaris
really does sound great as a name for the OS.
Read what you're replying to :-) Please, let's leave this, and get on with
the program. OpenIndiana is just fine, it's out there, and it's getting
noticed.
Type OpenIndiana into google. 250,000 hits already, all relevant (well,
okay the first few pages are, I haven't checked all 250,000 results). It's
made el Reg, PC world, various linux websites, ... Change the name now and
you'll scupper that momentum.
Do the same with Polaris. 16,000,000 hits. Snowmobiles, the star,
missiles, quad bikes, clothes, insurance, ... Besides, it was already taken
by the port of OpenSolaris (R.I.P.) for the PowerPC port.
"Our star" really doesn't sound like much of a brand name to me (sorry),
also it has the same google issues.
That's going to be an issue. We could spend months arguing back and forth
and waste time that could be spent on content.
Let's move on.
Rob
Initially it was said that "the community" didn't get a chance to
provide input, which turned out not to be true. Several of us pointed
out reasons why a name change right now would be a bad idea. Nobody
for the name change rebutted those reasons.
Can we move on from style for now and work on substance, like a
skinnable mp3 player written in Scheme with a Fortran decoder? :)
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