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

[taemun]

LuminOS (or some variation thereof, LumiOS) seems to me to be an obvious
contender. Shortens to Lumi. Follows on from (perhaps too closely) Illumos.

On 10 October 2010 03:15, Gabriel de la Cruz <gabriel.delacruz at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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