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

[Gabriel de la Cruz]

ERRATA: indiana, not indina :-P
I dont disturb again...
:-D


On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 7:14 PM, Gabriel de la Cruz
<gabriel.delacruz at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sorry, another comment, about our user base,
> It should be very easy to make the trademark transition, this has
> happen successfully on products that has been in the market for more
> than 10 years.
> In our case we just need to bond the domain names properly, ect... and
> keep the openindiana around for a while.. even easier if those names
> are inclusive, such as indina - openindiana.
>
> BR
>
>
>
> On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 7:10 PM, Gabriel de la Cruz
> <gabriel.delacruz at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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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