[OpenIndiana-discuss] The name: "OpenIndiana" (part II)

[Gabriel de la Cruz]

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
<gabriel.delacruz at gmail.com> 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
> <hilman at staff.itb.ac.id> 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<robmcmahoncv at gmail.com>
>>>  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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