> But "GNOME" also means "gnome", i.e. a small, dumpy, cutesy-stupid type > fellow. Following Murray's repeated points about brand association, is > that the type of image we want?
well maybe it's not the type of image we want, but imho it's way too late to change that name: it's been 8 years since the gnome project was started, and our brand awareness is very high amongst the free software community. so it'd have to be a fatal reason for us to change that name, and this one doesn't sound like that. anyway, i don't think anyone cares much about this, considering the success of other free software projects with weird names, like wine or the lame encoder. > By the way, Santiago, I think collecting negative reviews is incredibly > useful. well, it doesn't look too useful when that collection doesn't get to the people who should be reading it :) -- Santiago Roza Departamento I+D - Thymbra [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list