[LEDE-DEV] [OpenWrt-Devel] Talks between OpenWrt and LEDE

[John Crispin]

On 22/12/2016 06:18, Val Kulkov wrote:
> On 22 December 2016 at 00:13, Russell Senior <russell at personaltelco.net> wrote:
>>>>>>> "Florian" == Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli at gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>>> However, I also agree with Dave, Alberto and Stefan that a name
>>>> change may be a really smart way to communicate the fresh start of
>>>> the project, a reboot, especially if the new name rides on the
>>>> popularity of "OpenWRT". It could be for example "OpenLD" (LD for
>>>> Linux Device) or "LibreWRT". Of course this is all conditional on the
>>>> merge of OpenWRT and LEDE. If the projects do not merge, the OpenWRT
>>>> folks and SPI may have a claim against the use of OpenLD or LibreWRT
>>>> or alike.
>>
>> Florian> The point was that OpenWrt is already registered and managed by
>> Florian> SPI, so we may as well keep using it, and that is just what I
>> Florian> meant to say here, nothing more.  -- Florian
>>
>> Not that a choice on a name, with taste and discretion, isn't going to be
>> needed, but I can't help but think of this:
>>
>>   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_triviality
>>
>>
>> PS: OpenLEDE. ;-)
>>
>>
>> --
>> Russell Senior, President
>> russell at personaltelco.net
> 
> Now, please try to explain how to pronounce OpenLEDE and make sure the
> correct pronunciation sticks :-)

the people in old europe tend to say Open and then spell W R T while the
people in america tend to call it openwrite and i have heard many more
pronunciations over the years, specially in asia. its an inherent
problem when using abbreviations in an international environment.