On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 12:41:47PM -0600, Bonnie Corwin wrote: > Descriptive names are best from a trademark perspective. But also from > a perspective of inclusiveness. People on various OpenSolaris mail > aliases have commented in the past that descriptive names help people > understand what is happening in the community. 'Decorative' names are > hard to track and can obscure the technology they represent - to the > point of potentially being a barrier to entry.
This is all true... but one of the fundamental true-isms of engineers is that we like to have whizzy cool project names. cheers, steve -- stephen lau // stevel at sun.com | 650.786.0845 | http://whacked.net opensolaris // solaris kernel development
