Please sit down before reading this, and take a deep breath.

[John Williams <jwilliams business otago ac nz>]

On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 18:03 +0530, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote:

> Without straying too far from the topic - What is GNOME ? Or as someone
> recently asked me in one session for college kids (WTF is guh-nome)

With respect to the recent discussion on slogans and general discussion
of about "Real Marketing", is it time for a name change?

What is GNOME?  We seem to fond of asking that question these days.  The
answer is simple: it is the GNU Network Object Model Environment.

What the fuck?!?  I (and I presume everyone else reading this too ) find
those words meaningful.  What about the end-users?

And what associations (hello Murray!) does the word "gnome" conjure up?
Do we want that baggage?  (Does this apply only to native English
speakers?)

I am not suggesting that we need a name change, I am simply wondering if
anyone else has contemplated these issues?