By the way, the gray should be darker because of readability, sorry, I don't have the tools I need with me right now.
BR On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 7:07 PM, Gabriel de la Cruz <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > Jesus, nice hint, Polaris sounds very nice as a brand, but I am afraid > the patent office wont let us make a trademark for an OS with that > name, as there is only 1 letter difference... that will be acceptable > if we choose different classes of goods to be named with it, we could > name whatever else... but not software. > > I have been sketching, and I will suggest 2 options, both > "openindiana" and "indiana OS". > > "Indiana OS" could be the trade name for the actual product, > "openindiana" could be the community? > > I like as well other variations such as "Indiana CORE". That will work > if we intend this distro to be the mother-ship distro, and we intend > others to derive from it. > > As long as Indiana is not written alone, there are not many chances > for overlapping with other things at the search engines, we should > anyway register the name in google so it give priority to the search, > and so on. > > Seat Toledo sells nicely, even if there are 2 cities with that name. > > I hope the attachment works properly on the mail list... > > BR > > > > > > On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 4:45 PM, Hilman Fathurrahman > <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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? :) >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss >>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss >> > _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
