[OpenIndiana-discuss] [illumos-Discuss] branding for illumos/openindiana

[Blake]

I know that it may seem trivial, but as I look around me, Ubuntu is taking
over the systems world, and it's not because it's the best-engineered OS.
 It's because it's approachable to people with little experience, because it
makes it easy for them to learn the OS, and because the name is memorable.

I don't want this project to suffer the fate of Sun, a company with
brilliant engineers and technology that never got widely adopted because
they couldn't communicate to a broader audience.

I'll jump off this thread for a while now, to save your delete finger some
effort :D


Blake

On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 2:20 PM, Volker A. Brandt <vab at bb-c.de> wrote:

> Hello all!
>
>
> As my finger slowly turns red from pressing the d key again and again
> (yes, Emacs VM, the One True MUA, uses d to delete mails), I keep asking
> myself:  Does anyone really think that OI (and by extension Illumos)
> will be used or even looked at more just because it is renamed according
> to the naming-scheme-du-jour?
>
> Come on.  Illumos is a great name.  Us in-people know how it came
> about, and the rest just don't care.  OpenIndiana was perfectly
> logical at the time, too.
>
> "Linux" is not the greatest of names either.  It became what it is
> today for any number of reasons, but not because of the name.
>
> Should the domain names, the infrastructure, the mailing lists, etc.
> etc. all given up because of some fleeting hope of attracting one
> more n00b?
>
> There must be some more pressing issues.
>
>
> Regards -- Volker
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