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

[Santiago Roza <santiago roza thymbra com>]

> But "GNOME" also means "gnome", i.e. a small, dumpy, cutesy-stupid type
> fellow.  Following Murray's repeated points about brand association, is
> that the type of image we want?

well maybe it's not the type of image we want, but imho it's way too
late to change that name: it's been 8 years since the gnome project
was started, and our brand awareness is very high amongst the free
software community.

so it'd have to be a fatal reason for us to change that name, and this
one doesn't sound like that.

anyway, i don't think anyone cares much about this, considering the
success of other free software projects with weird names, like wine or
the lame encoder.



> By the way, Santiago, I think collecting negative reviews is incredibly
> useful.

well, it doesn't look too useful when that collection doesn't get to
the people who should be reading it  :)



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Santiago Roza
Departamento I+D - Thymbra
santiago roza thymbra com