Just a few thoughts (MHOs): * The success of Lazarus depends on the support for doing useful things in a reliable, nice and easy way - the name is not so important.
* Lazarus is/will be on the radar screen of the Delphi users in the first place. These could want to use it because of the multiplatform support, because it is free (which Delphi might become too!) and because of the Unicode support (when, sometime in the future, it perhaps becomes available also for win32). * However named, the name will become known through the unique qualities of the system and not the other way around. I believe it is already quite known, so that possible positive impacts of the name change are questionable. * Abandoning the relation to and the mention of Pascal (because those not in the know regard it as a dead and never-of-any-use language) does not seem acceptable to me. You do not suppress the name of your religion, ideology, your partner, etc. because there are some that have some objections on its/his/her properties. * Persons not acquainted with Christianity might have a problem associating the name with anything in particular. Those acquainted might associate it with the image of a man coming out of the tomb - not my favorite image. Is the current name unacceptable to people following other religions? - I can not tell, but it would not be good, if so. * The name based on a mythologycal association would perhaps be more widely acceptable than one based on religious association. In this respect, the concept of the Firebird would perhaps be more suitable. That one is, however, already being used for a very good open source DBMS (as most of us know). About firebirds: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_bird_(mythology) Any ideas? * Finally, what about an acronym: Novel Open Multiplatform Application Development It could even have a combined version: NOMAD-Lazarus Regards, Borut _________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives