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That part of the open source community literally prioritises linguistic whimsy over success.
by chrisseaton 4y ago
That part of the open source community literally prioritises linguistic whimsy over success.
- prmoustache 4y agoIn that particular case the openoffice name was trademarked so they wanted to find something bearing a semantic ressemblance. What was your suggestion for a name and where were you when it was time to choose it? ?
- chrisseaton 4y ago> bearing a semantic ressemblance But it doesn’t, outside of the Free Software fandom. They picked a name for themselves, not for their audience.
- Brian_K_White 4y agoThe name sucks, but libre absolutely does bear a rather non-trivial semantic resemblence to open. Come on.
- BlueTemplar 4y agoNot to mention Libre being a synonym for Free Software (the GNU kind).
- chrisseaton 4y agoApproximately zero people understand that connection in the general population. They're screaming at the choir.
- prmoustache 4y agoThat is not true Like 1 Billion people in the world are native spanish or french speakers and understand libre verbatim. Add to that most people speaking a latin language will also understand it despite the slight difference in spelling. Most people speaking english know the word liberty and those that have an IQ higher than an oyster do figure it out easily. Additionally you don't have to have a connection for a name to work. I mean there are a lot of software used by millions of people without them never ever thinking why they are called like that.
- chrisseaton 4y agoPeople in this thread, so technical people, who already have an interest in OpenOffice / LibreOffice, are saying they don't even know how to pronounce it!
- yellowapple 4y agoI still ain't seeing your suggestion for a better name.
- chrisseaton 4y agoAsking people like me is how you get a crap 'developer art' name like the one they have - they should have asked a professional!
- prmoustache 4y agoI guess you were already a generous donator back then already then! shoulda woulda
- justin66 4y agoI think crowdsourcing a name by polling the public will get you something like OfficeMcOfficeFace, and that is if you are lucky. So if this is your roundabout way of pointing out that the name could be even worse, well played.
- yellowapple 4y agoI mean, at least OfficeMcOfficeFace is memorable and straightforward to pronounce.