From: Sam D. <sk...@gm...> - 2014-02-03 21:37:16
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Vesa, I like the idea of moving to a new and more meaningful name. Something that describes our evolution as a community. Kind regards, Sam Duff On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 8:00 AM, Vesa <di...@nb...> wrote: > Speaking of Firefox... > > Firefox works because it's a single word, and a simple brand. It's also > meaningful in a way - There used to be Mozilla web browser, and later on > they made a separate project known as "Firefox", which was a faster, > slimmer version of the Mozilla browser suite, and the "firefox" > emphasized this "speed" aspect. Firefox later then became the main > project and the old Mozilla browser died away, but the name stayed. > > Anyway, Firefox works because it's simple and metaphorical. But if it > were a part of an acronym - like, if the browser were called "FFWB" or > "MFWB" (Mozilla Firefox Web Browser) then it wouldn't make any sense to > have the word "Firefox" in there. > > The metaphorical name and acronym are sort of incompatible, they have > similar but conflicting purposes, and they sort of cancel each other > out. An acronym reduces a technical, descriptive name into a more > memorable and quick form, it's so that the users don't have to remember > the parts that form the acronym. The acronym itself becomes the brand. > > Whereas in a metaphorical name, the name itself has the purpose of being > cool and grabbing attention and being memorable. By compressing it down > into an acronym, the metaphorical name loses it's effect, because people > will only see the acronym, and especially if the acronym expands into a > long string, no one will bother to remember what it actually stands for. > > Therefore, I'm starting to think that if we're going to keep the LMMS > acronym, we might as well just call the software LMMS, without > explaining the acronym in any way - it's just LMMS, that's it, because > that's how people are going to call the software in the end anyway. > > Or, we go with a cool, simple, short metaphorical name (like Firefox), > and ditch the LMMS and all other acronyms. Preferably it should be a > single word, easy to remember - because there's no point in coming up > with a cool name if people are just going to shorten it or collapse it > to an acronym. Kind of defeats the purpose. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Managing the Performance of Cloud-Based Applications > Take advantage of what the Cloud has to offer - Avoid Common Pitfalls. > Read the Whitepaper. > > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=121051231&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > LMMS-devel mailing list > LMM...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lmms-devel > |