The cool thing about Lemmas is the current logo practically is one.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_lemma
On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 4:47 PM, Bill Y. <b...@anzovin.com> wrote:
> I partially agree. There is a high probability that people will still call
> it LMMS; however, new people will often ask what LMMS stands for, and with
> out a decent replacement set of names people will say Linux Multimedia
> Studio. While we might say it no longer means anything, that aspect will
> never fade until it's replaced. Heck if the issue is Giving it a single
> name, then lets call it...
>
> LeMMaS! :)
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 4:00 PM, Vesa <dii....@nbl.fi> wrote:
>
>> Speaking of Firefox...
>>
>> Firefox works because it's a single word, and a simple brand. It's also
>> meaningful in a way - There used to be Mozilla web browser, and later on
>> they made a separate project known as "Firefox", which was a faster,
>> slimmer version of the Mozilla browser suite, and the "firefox"
>> emphasized this "speed" aspect. Firefox later then became the main
>> project and the old Mozilla browser died away, but the name stayed.
>>
>> Anyway, Firefox works because it's simple and metaphorical. But if it
>> were a part of an acronym - like, if the browser were called "FFWB" or
>> "MFWB" (Mozilla Firefox Web Browser) then it wouldn't make any sense to
>> have the word "Firefox" in there.
>>
>> The metaphorical name and acronym are sort of incompatible, they have
>> similar but conflicting purposes, and they sort of cancel each other
>> out. An acronym reduces a technical, descriptive name into a more
>> memorable and quick form, it's so that the users don't have to remember
>> the parts that form the acronym. The acronym itself becomes the brand.
>>
>> Whereas in a metaphorical name, the name itself has the purpose of being
>> cool and grabbing attention and being memorable. By compressing it down
>> into an acronym, the metaphorical name loses it's effect, because people
>> will only see the acronym, and especially if the acronym expands into a
>> long string, no one will bother to remember what it actually stands for.
>>
>> Therefore, I'm starting to think that if we're going to keep the LMMS
>> acronym, we might as well just call the software LMMS, without
>> explaining the acronym in any way - it's just LMMS, that's it, because
>> that's how people are going to call the software in the end anyway.
>>
>> Or, we go with a cool, simple, short metaphorical name (like Firefox),
>> and ditch the LMMS and all other acronyms. Preferably it should be a
>> single word, easy to remember - because there's no point in coming up
>> with a cool name if people are just going to shorten it or collapse it
>> to an acronym. Kind of defeats the purpose.
>>
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