Hello,

i agree with Tobias.

The name change involved with LibreOffice is only a "problem" because
the somewhat inactive OpenOffice stays available.
Also, the user base is far less technical than the OpenWrt user base.

If the teams merge, which i hope, there will be HTTP redirects and so on
- so this wouldn't be a problem for OpenWrt/LEDE.

Regards

Andreas


Tobias Welz schrieb am 23.12.2016 um 14:19:
> Hello,
> 
> out of curiosity: why is LibreOffice a failure of name change.
> 
> Other projects did that as well - The team (all - beside the owner
> AFAIK) of OpenElec made a new fork LibreElec. Companies do this also
> rename products from time to time, maybe you remember old times a famous
> snack in germany became renamed "Raider heißt jetzt Twix". (Raider is
> now called Twix). Or another example from industry: "Daewoo" spent a lot
> of money to establish the brand "Daewoo" in Germany. Anyway GM wiped out
> the brand name and just replaced it with "Chevrolet".
> 
> 
> I also like the well known name "OpenWrt" - I used it for a long time
> since "white russian" - anyway i don't mind new freshness like with
> LEDE. As long as people get the name change as some kind of "evolution"
> it's not necessarily a bad thing to take,e.g., LEDE.
> 
> People will also still call the project "OpenWrt" even it has another
> name  - others will still know that is meant - it's the same thing.
> 
> The only bad thing is having two projects in parallel (OpenElec /
> LibreElec) and people don't realize that there is something "new".
> 
> Regards Tobias
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [OpenWrt-Users] [OpenWrt-Devel] Talks between OpenWrt and LEDE
> From: David Lang <[email protected]>
> To: Stefan Monnier <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected], [email protected],
> [email protected]
> Date: 22.12.2016, 09:40:25
>> On Wed, 21 Dec 2016, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>>
>>> - While brands have value, you can change a name without losing all the
>>>  brand recognition.  I'm thinking here of cases like XBMC->Kodi or
>>>  OpenOffice->LibreOffice.
>>
>> I would point at OpenOffice -> LibreOffice as a failure of name changes.
>>
>> David Lang
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