Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 22:04:17 -0500 From: Laurence Berland <stuyman@confusion.net> To: Dave Yost <Dave@Yost.com> Cc: eT <eT@KryptoKom.DE>, FreeBSD Chat <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG>, FreeBSD Advocacy <freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: what's in a name? Message-ID: <36DDF831.B3B0604A@confusion.net> References: <v0410440cb302c68f6eb3@[205.219.69.138]>
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Name doesnt do much, otherwise either CKBe by calvin klein would fail, or BeOS would be really popular. Go figure
Dave Yost wrote:
> 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 that
> > 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 discovered.
>
> 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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Laurence Berland, Stuyvesant HS Debate
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