----- Original Message ----- > On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 1:22 PM, Jaroslav Reznik <jreznik@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > >> On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 11:25:18AM -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote: > >> > The Fedora Workstation effort (not a great name, by the way), is brand > >> > >> It doesn't have to end up with that name, for the record. That's just a > >> working title and indicative of the conversation at Flock. Peter Jones had > >> suggested "Fedora Client", and there were some others as well. > > > > Can we go one level up - should even Fedora be a name of a product? With > > Server/Workstation/Cloud and other as variants? Or can we treat Fedora as > > a project covering all different products using different names? > > > > You don't use M*soft Server but W*ows Server produced by that company... > > > > KDE guys tried this rebranding a long time ago, it never worked very well > > due > > to miscommunication in the very beginnings (KDE SC...). I was involved in > > discussion at Akademy with many red faces screaming "noo, don't do that, > > noo" > > but actually it makes sense. And even more sense to productised Fedora... > > It kills a well known brand and all marketing efforts of the past. Brand stays - it will be Fedora, or better Fedora Project as vendor. Just product will have different names but can still contain Fedora in name. > And > the KDE one > didn't really worked in the end everyone just calls it (the desktop) "KDE". I'm aware of that but as I said - it was due to communication/marketing mistakes. Jaroslav > -- > devel mailing list > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
