Easy Peasy: The Ubuntu Eee’s Controversial New Name
December 17, 2008 by Rico Mossesgeld
Filed under netbooks
Via Plurk:
AdeMagnaye: So Ubuntu Eee was renamed Easy Peasy. I don’t get it either.
Me: WTF?!?!?!
AdeMagnaye: Also, the guy’s running a logo contest to make Easy Peasy sound professional. Seriously.
AdeMagnaye: I mean, making his OS sound professional could be easily done by, well, choosing another name.
LaTtEX: It runs along the tradition of Ubuntu OS naming right?
tonyocruz: [how entertaining!]
AdeMagnaye: nope, this is a totally different project. It’s a play on Asus’s “Easy PC”, which is a branding fail for me.
aescnt: ugh. shit. the design-by-committee mechanisms of the FOSS community strikes again.
AdeMagnaye: Ugly name, contest will produce ugly logo, and next thing we know the UI will be ugly as well.
aescnt: Also, “I know the name is silly but we’ll make a serious logo with it!” is quite a near-sighted decision
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why don’t you go working and stop writing bullshit?
Ohhhh, snark with no point! How endearing!