Re: This thing we called GNUstep (Re: Kickstarter was not successful... but it did help things...)

[Doc O'Leary]

In article <mailman.9838.1387574481.10748.discuss-gnustep@gnu.org>,
 Pirmin Braun <pb@intars.de> wrote:

> Am Fri, 20 Dec 2013 14:41:41 -0600
> schrieb Doc O'Leary <droleary@7usenet2013.subsume.com> :
> 
> > I would go farther and say a complete rebranding is in order.  For the 
> > vast majority of people, OpenStep no longer has meaning, making the 
> > current naming of GNUstep a bit cumbersome to explain.
> 
> today you'd better name it GNUcoa :-)

Well, starting completely from scratch would require even more thought.  
I would lean away from anything that is overly Apple-branded, such as 
Cocoa, because it's as out of our control as the NeXT naming was.  
Better would be something like "Objective-GNU", which hits the 
underlying technology more.

Still not good from a user perspective, though, because they essentially 
have no exposure to those things.  It again all comes down to the 
question of what the project really, really wants to be.  Right now, it 
is a very inside-the-box, non-differently-thought reimplementation of 
what Apple is doing.  Bigger aims would require a bigger rebranding.

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