Am 21.12.2013 um 23:04 schrieb Jamie Ramone:

> We could always resurrect the "Differently thunk" wordplay someone suggested 
> years ago, the Cocoa audience would quickly recognize that one! :P
> 

I like this one. It also tells with a wink that GNUstep (the roots) even 
predates OpenStep.

> 
> On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 6:39 PM, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Am 21.12.2013 um 22:29 schrieb Jamie Ramone:
> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 5:52 PM, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller 
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Am 21.12.2013 um 20:19 schrieb Jamie Ramone:
>> 
>>> I dunno. It doesn't seem all too catchy. If it's an old saying I've never 
>>> heard of it. And what does it mean, what is it refering to? What's the 
>>> "walled garden" and why step out of it?
>> 
>> "Walled garrden" is a technical term for closed ecosystems like Apple's 
>> AppStore.
>> 
>> Everyone can participate and submit or buy Apps, but only within the 
>> sometimes quite restrictive rules defined by the operator.
>> 
>> On the contrary with
>> 
>>      "take a GNUstep outside of the walled garden"
>> 
>> you can develop any app and publish it as you like (*). And that without 
>> loosing the knowledge and APIs one has learned for the Apple ecosystem.
>> 
>> For a better definition look at WIkipedia:
>> 
>>      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed_platform
>> 
>> (*) we even have a very simple form of an AppStore (the GNUstep Software 
>> Index).
>> 
>>> 
>>> How 'bout "think outside the box"? Catchy, well known and invites one to 
>>> take a look and not reject it flat out because it's not <insert arbitrary 
>>> personal reason here>.
>> 
>> Because GNUstep is not a tool for "thinking".
>> 
>>  Neither is Apple, which uses the "think different" catchphrase, that's not 
>> the point. Thinking in this context refers to considering this 
>> runtime/development environment over other, possibly more conventional. It's 
>> meant as an invitation for developers who are new to GNUstep or Objective C. 
>> Or, say, Cocoa developers who never considered using anything outside 
>> Apple's tools.
> 
> I like the walled garden allusion. Every iOS developer knows and feels that 
> and I know many would be happy to take "a GNUstep over that wall".
> 
> "Thinking outside the box" is not specific enough. Every creative person 
> would claim that he/she is already doing that. So the first question would 
> be: what does GNUstep make differently? And there would be no answer.
> 
> The key difference with these metaphors is that the "box" is seen as a 
> self-imposed limit of thinking. While the walls around the garden are created 
> by someone an impose limits that you wouldn't have.
> So these pictures express some very different concepts. Breaking 
> self-limitation vs. breaking external limits.
> 
> I think your proposal is too generic while the one with the walled garden is 
> better targeted at the GNUstep (and Cocoa) audience.
> 
>>> 
>>> __
>>> "Besos, abrazos, confeti y aplausos"
>>> Jaime "El Vikingo" Ramone
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 11:35 AM, Ivan Vučica <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> +1. I like the catchphrase.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Fri Dec 20 2013 at 10:03:48 PM, Graham Lee <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> > On 20 Dec 2013, at 20:44, "Doc O'Leary" 
>>> > <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > Here's an attempt at a catch phrase:
>>> >
>>> > Step outside the walled garden.
>>> 
>>> Heh. Nice :)
>>> 
>>> Graham.
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