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

[Sergio Zanchetta]

2016-12-23 14:19 GMT+01:00 Tobias Welz <tw at wiznet.eu>:
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> Hello,
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> out of curiosity: why is LibreOffice a failure of name change.
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> 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".
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> The only bad thing is having two projects in parallel (OpenElec / LibreElec) and people don't realize that there is something "new".
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Another example of successful name change is OpenERP/ODOO

http://www.enterpriseappstoday.com/erp/what-is-odoo-open-source-erp.html

P.S: as a trivia fact, have a look at this :

..."The name Odoo itself may be a puzzle to some, but it is based
partly on whim and partly on an analysis of startups names.
Apparently, the more Os you have in your name, the more successful you
tend to be. Think Microsoft, Google, Yahoo!, to name a few."....


Sergio.