Mad Penguin review

Am Freitag, den 21.10.2005, 11:05 -0400 schrieb Shawn McMahon:
> On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 11:10:33PM -0400, Eric Dunbar said:
> > 
> > And, his conclusion was rather amusing:
> > "The naming scheme sucks and Ubuntu is a neat system. And, in
> > conclusion, I'd like to tell you that the naming scheme sucks."
> 
> See, the thing about problems that are based on personal taste is, they
> can't be wrong.  They can't be argued, they can't be overcome with
> logic.
> 
> If a lot of people think the naming convention will be a problem with
> corporate adoption, we really ought to listen to them.  The only point
> of contention is whether or not they're a significant fraction; no
> logical argument against their position holds any water.  That is,
> unless you want to have that discussion individually with every
> potential user, face-to-face.  The one thing a salesman does not want to
> do is walk into the meeting and start defending the name of his product.
> Ask somebody about how much trouble Coca-Cola had to go to when looking
> for the right Chinese characters for their product.  Shopkeepers who
> tried directly translating the sounds often ended up with "bite the
> wax tadpole" or "female horse fastened with wax" before the company
> issued an official name that translated to "allow the mouth to be
> able to rejoice".  Names are important to product adoption.
> 
> If you don't care about corporate adoption, of course, the current names
> are peachy.  That's a valid position, and I don't mean to trivialize it.
> 
> 
what about debians 'sarge' 'woody' 'sid'?
and redahts 'rawhide' 'shrike' etc...?

has it stopped them from being successful?

ulrich