On Fri, 21 Jan 2005, Niels wrote: > I have tried to keep my pride from getting the better of me but I am > slightly offended. I didn't spend hours trying to think up a name. I > just couldn't stand the idea of another animal reference item. > Since I am not big on programming I had never heard of OORE or the > fact that they call it ogre. But an Open GRaphics card called Ogre is > completely serious. We can ask if they will let us get away with the > Ogre card. And a name IS important. The card has to be an item > people will want to buy. If it isn't then this whole project will be > short lived. > The Kool Aid man said "Let's get serious. Seriously whacky." And I > think it is entirely appropriate to wrack our brains for something > that is catchy but obviously not lame-sounding. And, "no disrespect > intended" but, to me "opentech3d" lacks imagination and while this is > definitely a geek item "FPGA" is just too geek. That type of a name > would be confused with FCPGA and simply glossed over by the > semi-intrepid PC user. You want a name that works. I believe that > means it should, again, be catchy, easily associated with the product > (lasting impression), strong and maybe descriptive.
I wasn't really serious about my name suggestions, and if I offended you I apologise. The reason I suggested a more serious-sounding name were that, to me, an electronic device (motherboard, graphics card, mp3-player, washing-machine, whatever) with a "catchy" name like 'terminator-ultra-super-X' makes me cringe and think that the company spends more time on coming up with funny names than on the quality of the product, and thus I usually pass them over for something better... Best regards Peter K -- We Can Put an End to Word Attachments: http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
