True, and I'm all in for making the learning curve less steep, but rebranding things with names that are unassociated with them is IMO totally the wrong way to go.
Don't hit people getting intrested with all the terminology, only use words that they will probably understand, I get it. But calling it something that its not *just so people will like it* is plain silly IMO.
On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 12:11 PM, Dale Powell
<dj_kaza@hotmail.com> wrote:
As the OS in FLOSS
stands for Open Source it's hardly a rebranding though is it? Why force
people who may have never heard of it to search the internet to find out
what an acronym stands for when there is a nicer on the eyes, ears and
minds term that sums it up pretty much as well?
In that instance I'd have no problem, as you pointed out its not *rebranding*, its making it easier to access for beginners and I'm all up for that.