Hi Lourens, On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 17:48 +0100, Lourens Veen wrote: > On Thursday 24 March 2005 14:58, Randy Williams wrote: > > Greetings All, > > > > Lourens has a fine point, let's get a name for this critter. However, > > for the time being as this product is quite a departure, lets focus on > > names that do not include Tech Source or its current product line. This > > product will need to be able to stand on its own, by its merits in order > > to succeed. > > Okay, that makes sense I guess. You probably won't be able to prevent people > from adding TechSource to the name though, just like they talk about the ATI > Radeon and the nVidia Geforce. > > > My first impression is that we choose from the third group, with > > "harbinger" being my favorite. Although OpenGlass is certainly very > > neat as well. > > Timothy preferred Harbinger as well. To be honest I'm less and less > enthusiastic about OpenGlass, although I don't really know why yet. > > I can see two potential problems with Harbinger. The first has been brought > up > here before, and that is that it is not an oft-used word, and as such many > non-native English speakers may not know it. I'm Dutch and I consider my > English to be pretty good, but the only place I've seen the word before is in > the lyrics to Machinae Supremacy's song Ninja. I looked up its meaning when I > first heard that song about a year ago. There is also the expression > "harbinger of sorrow" which I guess we do not want to be :-).
What about a related concept: "StormFront". It's something you see coming, and it means things are changing. :-) Cheers, Ray _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
