On 10/06/2010 05:29 AM, Alex Fisher wrote: > Secondly, "Libre Office"!?
You might not understand the meaning. You might not know how to pronounce it. But both of those are solvable issues. Branding is a black art. When a new brand is created, most of the money spent on naming it, goes to trademark searches, and determining if there are pre-existing negative, or obscene connotations to the proposed name, in languages that might be used where the new brand is to be marketed. > would apply to virtually all other non-Romance languages. Any name that is chosen is going to have issues with people not being able to pronounce it, or not knowing what it means. Try this sentence: "Sebeqabele gqi thapha bathi nguqo ngqothwane". If you learned to speak that language prior to age six, there is a 25% probability that you won't be able to pronounce that sentence correctly. If you didn't learn to speak that language prior to age six, you won't be able to pronounce it correctly. Could you spell "i-ofisi ekhululekileyo " correctly? [I'm fairly confident that you couldn't pronounce it correctly.] That is what LibO would be called, if that language were used, rather than the Romance languages that are used. Ag, maybe somebody would give dem yankees a break, and use "vula i-ofisi" instead. They still couldn't pronounce it, but they might be able to spell it. > The choice of "Libre" immediately gives me the impression that the whole > thing People can learn new words. People can learn new meanings to existing words. Governments have used Orwellian NewSpeak for decades, to make their crimes sound more palatable. > I have trouble believing the figures put forward. Bear in mind that the > Community Council is *not* the entire community. The Developers are *not* the > entire community. They are *part* of the community, and *only* part of it. The Community Council represents the users. The Developers are the people that work on the product. Take a look at who registered the various LibreOffice domain names. And look at how fast those domain names were registered. [One reason why the formation of Document Foundation, and LibreOffice had to kept under wraps, was to minimize domain name cybersquatting.] >To the vast majority of people who comprise the community, this announcement would have come as a complete shock. It would have been a shock only to those people who don't pay any attention to the Community Council list, or the developer list. By July 2010, it was clear that OOo developers, community council, and users would declare independence from Oracle. The only issue was when. Once OpenIndiana was announced, it should have been obvious to everybody that OOo was the next community project that Oracle would lose. jonathon -- No human will see non-list, non-bulk, non-junk email sent to this address. It all gets forwarded to /dev/null
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