Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 03:13:58 -0800 From: Dave Yost <Dave@Yost.com> To: eT <eT@KryptoKom.DE> Cc: FreeBSD Chat <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG>, FreeBSD Advocacy <freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: what's in a name? Message-ID: <v0410440cb302c68f6eb3@[205.219.69.138]> In-Reply-To: <36DD15A7.DB479EDB@kryptokom.de>
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At 11:57 AM +0100 1999-03-03, eT wrote:
> you know, this whole lin*x thing has me baffled. ... i am wondering
> why linux has a larger user/suport base in the first place? could it be t=
hat
> the word linux just 'sounds' more like a friendly operating system than
> FreeBSD? and that because of this new users are more susceptible to
> using it?
Yes!
Linux is warm and fuzzy, like Linus, the kid with the fuzzy blanket. =
FreeBSD is techie and acrinomious, acronymical. (Yes, I know, there will=
be a chorus of fans who like it to sound techie.) And it sounds like=
freebie, which has the connotation of el cheapo marketing.
> is linux perhaps a more 'marketable' name than FreeBSD?
Absolutely.
> why not let's change the name FreeBSD to some variant
> of linux? i agree that the time for advocacy has come upon us more
> than ever before!
schroedix?
snoopix?
peanix? (this one makes me laugh)
blankie?
blankix?
fuzzix?
paulinx?
VitaminCeex?
warmvm?
steamingvm?
weenix?
geex?
geexooks?
wannabeex?
berx? (not good for the U.K. -- well, it would make for a good book title:
berx for Berks.)
;-)
I'm getting carried away...
But seriously, there's a totally great name out there waiting to be discover=
ed.
Do you think Zip drives would have caught on as well if they had been called=
Bernoulli III? or FloppyXYZ?
Dave
Too much crazed wordplay for one night...
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