Re: Re: Reply To: Sodipodi / *nkscape...

On Sat, 2004-02-28 at 22:01, Pat Suwalski wrote:

> Names like Gimp, eog, Totem, and Anjuta are just as arbitrary as Sodipodi.

And, most likely, they all have suffered from lack of recognition.  The
GIMP, for example, is successful now; but the odds are good it would
have taken off a little faster with a descriptive name.

In the commercial world, there are lots of companies and products with
nondescriptive names (Coke, Sears, The Gap); but there they have money
to spend on advertising their name.  A better comparison for us would be
small local companies without much money for advertising; those tend to
use descriptive names, such as Springfield Auto Repair, so that people
will know what they are without advertising.

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