Re: Proposal: Differentiate products more clearly (Cycle 01)

[Luis Felipe]

Hi Felix,

El 12/10/23 a las 1:54, Felix Lechner via Development of GNU Guix and 
the GNU System distribution. escribió:
> Hi Felipe,
>
> On Thu, Oct 12 2023, Luis Felipe wrote:
>
> > people call both products by the same name (Guix)
> I totally agree with you. The confusion is unfortunate. I would call the
> package manager "Guix," which does the greatest justice to history [1]
> and pick a new name for the operating system.
>
> While the -ix and -ux endings have long traditions in the operating
> system space, the Guix name is already trademarked by someone else for
> that kind of software. [2]

Hmm, I've heard about this trademark issue before... I'm not sure, but I 
think the subject was planned/proposed for discussion during the ten 
years of GNU Guix event, but I haven't seen any information about it.

> Hoping for a change as you are, I tried to purchase stampede.org from
> the original inventor of Stampede Linux [3] a year or so ago in order to
> offer it to the project, but that went nowhere from either side.
>
> Meanwhile, I have some other names I would be happy to purchase and
> donate to the project, but I cannot disclose them to the public before
> doing so.
>
> The impetus for change is low. Please don't give up!
I intentionally omitted any suggestion of name changing in this proposal 
to lower the chance of resistance :) But maybe this is a good time to 
consider if renaming the operating system is the thing to do.

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