The name of Breezy+1

[Paul Sladen]

On Fri, 23 Sep 2005, jimcooncat wrote:

Hello Jim,

Mmm, this probably belongs on the 'sounder' list.  If you reply, could you
consider moving it there please.  (sounder at lists.ubuntu.com)

> Dapper Drake. When I first saw this name, I was concerned.
> How would that market to the folks in the Northeast U.S.?

Probably the same way IBM (a company incorporated in New York) successfully
sell a bow-tie wearing penguin to Fortune 50 corporates.  IBM also buy
superbowl adverts and use them to promote 'silly penguins in suits'.

> Social norms here are that men who dress well are at first sight
> considered to be overtly homosexual or some huckster, politician, or
> evangelist trying to persuade you to part with your money or time.

In Britain it is illegal to descriminate based on aspects such as dress, sex
and sexual preference.  I believe this is also the case in places such as
Massachusetts (about as North-east as you can go in the United States).

It is a pity that there is this amount presumtion about how a person's
dress might reflect their character (I hate to think what happens when
Japanese suit-wearing tourists turn up with money to spend :-).

> I'm just trying to understand how to market this name.

Ubuntu 6.04 is the name of the next Ubuntu release.

> Now that the distro is named Mandriva, it's an even less marketable

No comment.

	-Paul
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