[Sugar-devel] Soas name

[Wade Brainerd]

To state my position more generally, I believe we cannot use metaphorical
references to associate our brands with each other.  It defeats the whole
purpose of a unified brand.

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Wade Brainerd <wadetb at gmail.com> wrote:

> To the contrary, the words Sugar on a Stick actually mean something.
> Actually they mean two things:  Sugar environment on a USB stick in the
> context of software, and a kind of candy in the context of food.
>
> Lollipop or Rock Candy means nothing in the context of software unless you
> *know* you are also in the context of Sugar environments.  .
>
> I think that if we are producing an "Official" Sugar distribution that is
> intended to run on XOs, PCs, USB sticks, emulators, etc. perhaps SoaS is a
> little too specific.
>
> Regards,
> Wade
>
> On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 12:38 PM, Luke Faraone <luke at faraone.cc> wrote:
>
>> Or "rock candy" :)
>>
>> -lf
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Mitch Bradley <wmb at firmworks.com>wrote:
>>
>>> The name "Soas" lacks pizazz.  How about "lollipop"?  After all, a
>>> lollipop is just ..
>>
>>
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