Overcoming the "Dylan is Dead" belief?

Bruce Mitchener <[email protected]> Tue, 10 Sep 2013 20:35:01 +0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.dylan.gwydion.devel
Message-ID <CA+esKjNfeiMdqR0g1Bik8KJd6RV+C8F2MxSJyjnh6xvhWkSXDg@mail.gmail.com>
Hey all,

Repeatedly, I have run into people who thought Dylan was long gone and
dead.  People often think it was an Apple-only project and that when Apple
killed Apple Dylan, it was the fatal blow and that there wasn't anything
available.

This has been a common refrain in conversations, when we do a release
("Wow, I didn't know Dylan was still around."), and when others bring it up.

It has been suggested a number of times that we should consider renaming
things to divorce ourselves from the past and allow people to get to know
us under a new identity.  That'd be a lot of work though and would have
issues with things like the DRM and DPG which we can't go and rename.  I
also think that having the history is valuable at times in and of itself.
Dylan had grand origins and it needn't shy away from them, perhaps.

What can we do? What should we do?

 - Bruce

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