[OpenIndiana-discuss] The name: "OpenIndiana"

[Daniel Kjar]

  Don't feel bad, in the US indiana sounds nice but represents a (crazy) 
conservative state that tends to produce corn, cows, and very very bad 
politicians.

Was just in Copenhagen, very nice....

On 10/ 6/10 06:10 AM, Søren Krarup Olesen wrote:
> ALL:
>
> Has there been any discussion about the name "OpenIndiana" recently. I
> can surely understand the reason for picking this name, but for a Dane
> (like me) it comes out a bit clumsy.
>
> I've tried to imagine a couple of funny scenarios, like OpenDenmark
> (Denmark is at least three times smaller than the state of Indiana) and
> it leaves me with wrong, well, almost political associations.
>
> As much as I want Denmark to be more open towards foreigners, this
> probably has no counterpart in making Indiana more "open" in that
> sense, so... :-)
>
> Perhaps "OpenIndiana" sounds much better in American but it still has
> this...provincial touch over it.
>
> Anybody?
>
> Søren
>
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