On 12/21/2016 09:42 PM, Dave Taht wrote: > On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 12:29 PM, David Lang <da...@lang.hm> wrote: >> On Wed, 21 Dec 2016, Kathy Giori wrote: >> >>> From a PR perspective, I strongly suggest keeping the term OpenWrt as >>> part of the branding of the project moving forward. It can just be >>> cosmetic (web site, etc.) but the name has so much history, and >>> positive connotation, that you don't want to lose that brand attached >>> to the development moving forward. >> >> >> I agree, I think this is an obvious choice to make. OpenWRT has a lot of >> name recognition, it would be foolish to throw that away. > > Just to take the other side for rhetorical purposes, a purpose of a > re-branding exercise is to show a change in the "product" or > organisation behind it. OpenWrt is widely known... as a bleeding edge, > sometimes unstable, somewhat hard to use 3rd party firmware. DD-Wrt > and Tomato get a lot more press for some reason. So do things like > Yocto. If lede were to succeed in meeting its other goals, coherently, > preserving "lede" and moving forward as a separate project does make > sense. >
+1 for this. OpenWRT brand isn't 100% positive recognition, it has some downsides too. Many people (I know and/or have seen around the internet) were discouraged from contributing or using it due to the weaknesses of OpenWRT project. I like more the LEDE branding for this reason. It conveys that it is significantly different, possibly for the better, from OpenWRT project. But I don't have enough information to say for sure what is the better brand to keep, so this is just my opinion. -Alberto _______________________________________________ Lede-dev mailing list Lede-dev@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/lede-dev
